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A/BPU Powerlifting Single Lifts British Championships at the Arnold Sports Festival UK, NEC, Birmingham Report
Apr
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 […]
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 […]
Aug
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 […]
Jul
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.
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The GB Team, all 216, went, lifted and conquered! Recap from the A/WPC European Championships 2025 in Wroclaw, Poland
Jun
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 […]
Mar
SILA! Massive weekend of A/BPU powerlifting saw some utter pandemonium at Manchester’s premium training facility, Strength Therapy, also known as SILA. This venue has hosted almost two dozen meets for the federation. Even though their outward Polish stoicism sometimes doesn’t betray it, the enthusiasm of the facility owner’s towards the world of strength and fitness […]