Unofficial reports have started to filter in from the WPC Powerlifting and Bench Press World Championships in Bournemouth, Great Britain. The lifting kicked off on Tuesday with open class competitors starting on the platform on Thursday. The women have wrapped up their competition and the open men through the 181 pound weight class were on the platform today.

The action runs through Sunday.

Partial & Unofficial Open Powerlifting Results

Charlie Paige (148) bench pressed 365 pounds raw at Saturday's WNPF USA vs. the World Championships in Kissimmee, Florida. Paige ranks first on the Powerlifting Watch Lifter Rankings with a 385 pound effort.

Nelson Boutte (132) posted the sixth ranked total on the Lifter Rankings when he totaled 1,300 pounds on Saturday at the USAPL Battle on the Bayou in Church Point, Louisiana.

Deadlift specialist Tee Meyers (198-multi) pulled 700 pounds on Saturday at the WNPFLT World Championships in Kissimmee, Florida. The deadlift ranks Meyers fourth on the Powerlifting Watch Lifter Rankings.

Preliminary results are posted for the WABDL World Championships which took place October 27-31 in Reno, Nevada.

Here are a number of videos from last weekend's WDFPF Powerlifting World Championships which took place in Milton Keynes, England.

Included is men's raw best lifter Ukrainian Olexiy Nazarenko, who posted a 1,686 pound (765kg) total that ranks him 24th in the world on the Powerlifting Watch Power Rankings.

Nazarenko's 727 pound (330kg) fourth attempt deadlift:

METAL has uploaded video which includes some of the action from the first three days of the WPC Powerlifting and Bench Press World Championships in Bournemouth, England. Included is Russian Vladimir Maximov (308) benching 881 pounds (400kg), Mari Asp (123), who is coming off of her best bencher win at WPF Worlds, and others.

IDFPA President Tom Coyle has announced that he will file a complaint with the WDFPF and BDFPA regarding the choice by World meet directors Neil Abery and Rick Meldon to not hand out medals at the event and their subsequent handling of some lifter's reactions to that decision.

18-year-old high school senior Jordan Dunn (165) totaled 1,802 pounds for the second time in the past three months when he achieved the total yesterday at the WPC Powerlifting and Bench Press World Championships in Bournemouth, Great Britain. The total ranks Dunn third on the Powerlifting Watch Lifter Rankings.