Ireland Wins WPF Powerlifting Worlds

Submitted by Staff on November 21, 2008 - 10:10am.

Ireland took the team competition at last week's WPF Powerlifting World Championships in Vienna, Austria. The U.S. placed second and Great Britain earned third. In the bench press competition, Great Britain brought home the gold medal, followed by Austria and the U.S. Germany captured the deadlift competition. Austria grabbed silver, and the U.S. followed in third.

Iceland's Sigfus Fossdal won best powerlifter honors. The best female powerlifter award went to Russian Maryn Berezenko.

Poland's Adam Koztowski and American Leonetta Richardson captured best male and female bencher honors.

Poland's Kristov Vladmur was named best male deadlifter and Richardson followed up with her second best lifter honor, winning best female deadlifter.

Full results from the event are pending.

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Submitted by Ger smith (not verified) on November 21, 2008 - 12:12pm. » quote

I did 645kgs @ 72k BW. Junior level.

sigfus bench 330kgs which i have on video and will post soon.

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on November 21, 2008 - 12:58pm. » quote

what US fed is affiliated with the WPF?

Submitted by Staff on November 21, 2008 - 1:28pm. » quote

Anonymous wrote:

what US fed is affiliated with the WPF?

USPF

Submitted by Sleifurinn (not verified) on November 22, 2008 - 7:15am. » quote

Sigfus or "Skyri" as he is known in Iceland had a great tournament in Vienna.

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on November 22, 2008 - 9:58pm. » quote

Ireland had a few imports from Ukraine. Nothing wrong with that but it certainly helped them win the team championship.

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on November 23, 2008 - 8:15am. » quote

sure you don't have to be irish to be irish and anyway didn't one of there lifters who was actually born in ireland break the world record for there combination lifts in deadlift and squats in their class.

Submitted by Ger (not verified) on November 23, 2008 - 3:13pm. » quote

Anonymous wrote:

Ireland had a few imports from Ukraine. Nothing wrong with that but it certainly helped them win the team championship.

I Competed for Ireland, i am irish. there was ONE lithuanian guy called nerjuis who has lived in his ireland for all of his adult life. The best team trophy for FULL power is based on the FULL power competition and exclusive of bench only and deadlift only. there was oen other polish guy who competed bench only but did not influence the winning of this trophy. To say there were a "few" is just plain false