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A/BPU Powerlifting Single Lifts British Championships at the Arnold Sports Festival UK, NEC, Birmingham Report

Posted on by Emma James
07
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 […]

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The A/BPU NEWSLETTER Volume 3, November 2025.

Posted on by Emma James
27
Nov

Please click the button at the bottom of the page to view the full 8 pages of the newsletter

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A/BPU British Team WPC World Powerlifting Championships 2025 in Durban, South Africa highlights

Posted on by Emma James

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 […]

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Meet the President of the A/BPU, Dr Emma Ylitalo-James

Posted on by Emma James
14
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 […]

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The GB Team, all 216, went, lifted and conquered! Recap from the A/WPC European Championships 2025 in Wroclaw, Poland

Posted on by Emma James
16
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 […]

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Team GB in the Windy City!

Posted on by Emma James
20
Nov

Team GB recap at WPC World Championships 2024 TEAM GB IN THE WINDY CITY 2025 WPC Worlds were hosted by Amy Jackson and Eric Stone in Lisle, Illinois, in the greater Chicago area. GB Team arrived as 16-strong squad of lifters to the Sheraton hotel serving as the venue and were not disappointed. The venue […]

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