GPC Worlds Roster

Submitted by Staff on August 6, 2008 - 7:55am.

The GPC has posted the roster (pdf) for the World Championships which will be held September 7-12 in Warwickshire, Great Britain. At present, 91 athletes from ten countries are registered to compete. In a blow to the BPC's effort to hold multi ply powerlifting together in the country, host Great Britain will have 42 lifters competing. Other countries represented include Slovakia, Belgium, France, Czech Republic, Russia, Ireland, Canada, Ukraine, and Germany. No U.S. lifters are yet registered. The GPC is currently lacking a U.S. affiliate, although Bob Packer is reportedly assembling an American team.

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Submitted by S CURTIS (not verified) on August 6, 2008 - 8:22am. » quote

The british lifters have a world championship event in there own country and they want to lift in it good luck to them common sense at last.

Submitted by OZlifter (not verified) on August 6, 2008 - 9:53am. » quote

strange definition of global. Outside of Europe and the UK I counted 1 lifter from Canada

Submitted by s curtis (not verified) on August 6, 2008 - 12:10pm. » quote

strange definition of world. if you look at last years wpc world championsips in russia more like a russian national championships.

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on August 8, 2008 - 2:33am. » quote

Just little correction: BEL doesn't mean Belarus but Belgium!!!

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on August 8, 2008 - 12:06pm. » quote

It is very early to be judging the GPC world's roster...I'm sure there will be 300-400 lifters by the event. The U.S. may not have a team this year, Packer might merge into the USPF as a multi ply dividion that would affiliate with the GPC, however this might not take place soon enough to field a team.

Too bad the APC has basically gone under due to poor leadership,IMO. The GPC is a fantastic internation PL fed.

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on August 8, 2008 - 2:08pm. » quote

Maybe you should consider your own wisdom when you make predictions about the APC. You are only wishing and not looking at reality.

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on August 8, 2008 - 2:38pm. » quote

Well last time I checked their website they only had one scheduled meet, April 2009. If they are not having meets then I would say they are done...I am darn sure the couple still on site for cali will not happend.

So what does this tell us...I guess a fed can have 1 meet a year and still be viable, sure i guess.

I was a huge supporter of the APC, and still hold some records there. I helped promote some of their meets. I always defended the APC until may bad things happened that did not need to. The one's who lost out were the lifters who enjoyed lifting their, payed their card fee's and wanted the option to attened a REAL world championship.