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 […]
First ever Northern Irish qualifier is a wrap! This Sunday A/BPU held its first ever qualifier in Belfast. This was an especially important competition for Emma, being born and bred Belfast girl she has dreamed of running one ‘back home’ for years. It was a small competition, as first meets in new areas tend to […]
The place to see our previous live streams and to watch live steams of your favourite UK powerlifting competitions coming up. The link to our YouTube Channel is HERE 2026 A/BPU BRITISH SINGLE LIFTS POWERLIFTING CHAMPIONSHIPS – ARNOLD SPORTS FESTIVAL UK A/BPU Single Lifts Championships Day 1 @ Arnold Sports Festival UK A/BPU Single Lifts […]
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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 […]
