The entries to A/BPU British Powerlifting Union Full Power British 2026 are having a last-minute surge and we are soon up to 450 individual competitors as the clock ticks towards midnight tonight, the final cut off. Combine that with the 350ish individual competitors at the A/BPU British Powerlifting Union Single Lifts British Championships 2026, and […]
Post Competition Report from the WPC AWPC European Championships 2026, Limerick, Ireland We had a huge team of 151 competitors going to the A/WPC European Championships 2026 in Limerick, Ireland. The team included the automatically qualified reigning European and World Champions as well as massive group of lifters qualified through our regional qualifiers, almost three […]
The A/BPU Single Lift Championships of the British Powerlifting Union has absolutely wiped us out! In the middle of the busiest competition season, sandwiched between weekends that each held up to three powerlifting qualifiers around the United Kingdom we ran the biggest ever single lift event that ever took place in UK with 351 competitors […]
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So the team has made it back from the WPC World Powerlifting Championships 2025 in Durban, South Africa clutching a lot of gold and silver medals. They were victorious and a real asset for the A/BPU British Powerlifting Union RAW, Classic RAW and equipped powerlifting and bench only and deadlift only in Great Britain. We […]
Dr Emma Ylitalo-James is the founder and President of the British Powerlifting Union and started the federation in her spare time in 2012. She has the all time biggest female bench press at competition in history in the world across all age divisions in the 90kg class and is the biggest female bench presser of […]
Below is the PDF sent out to all competitors with the full information about coaches, entry, flights times, weigh in the warm up details. This was emailed out to everyone but we are aware that email filters can sometimes block emails with attachments.
We arrived on the Sunday later than expected due to a delayed flight and therefore missed connection. The team had already started to fly in and we had so many of the team who had nevr done an international before I was a bit “worried”. Those of you who have done internationals with us know […]
