Queensland Wrap-Up – Sonia Stenhouse Queensland Team Manager
The Australian U15/Youth Online Championships were held from Friday 3rd to Sunday 5th June, with Queensland having 48 athletes competing over the course of the virtual competition. Our State Competition Hubs were located in Brisbane, Townsville and Emerald, and Queensland certainly enjoyed a successful Nationals, with many outstanding individual performances and personal bests, a large haul of medals won, and successful teams results.
Even with some last-minute withdrawals due to illness and injury, our Queensland Teams won 3 out of the possible 4 Team Shields – 1st Place in U15 MENS, U15 WOMENS, AND YOUTH MENS TEAMS. Our Qld YOUTH Women’s Team took out 2nd place, with NSW taking the win by a mere 9 points!
Our congratulations to the following lifters who received placings in Best Lifter Awards:-
Chloe Perkins 1ST PLACE BEST YOUTH FEMALE LIFTER
Chloe Saliba 3rd PLACE BEST YOUTH FEMALE LIFTER
Tyson Williams – Allen 1st PLACE BEST U15 MALE LIFTER
Kyle Finch 2ND PLACE BEST U15 MALE LIFTER
Joshua Strange 2ND PLACE BEST YOUTH MALE LIFTER
Lachlan Watt 3RD PLACE BEST YOUTH MALE LIFTER
SEQ Hub – Cougars Weightlifting Club
Townsville Hub – Thunder Barbell Club (Coached by Leanne Knox)
Medals won by Queensland athletes:-
Sienna Lambert F40 U15 GOLD & YOUTH GOLD
Amelie Graham F45 U15 BRONZE & YOUTH BRONZE
Holly Souter F55 U15 SILVER
Chloe Perkins F55 YOUTH GOLD
Lucy Webb F55 YOUTH BRONZE
Chloe Saliba F59 YOUTH GOLD
Sophie Daley F59 U15 GOLD & YOUTH SILVER
Saige Groves F59 U15 SILVER
Ella Mcintyre F64 YOUTH SILVER
Ika Ryan F64 U15 BRONZE
Natasha Lynch F71 YOUTH SILVER
Harper Talbot F71 U15 SILVER & YOUTH BRONZE
Alana Castle F76 U15 GOLD & YOUTH BRONZE
Selina Richards F76 U15 BRONZE
Manaia Ruka F87 YOUTH GOLD
Addison Jeffries F87+ U15 SILVER & YOUTH BRONZE
Zack Oliver M49 U15 SILVER
Archer Turner M55 U15 GOLD
Jesse Saliba M55 U15 SILVER
Kyle Finch M61 U15 GOLD & YOUTH GOLD
Samuel Honeywood M61 U15 SILVER
Cooper Lydement M61 U15 BRONZE
Joshua Strange M67 YOUTH GOLD
Levi Deans M67 YOUTH BRONZE
Tyson Williams-Allen M67 U15 GOLD
Lachlan Watt M73 YOUTH GOLD
Rhys Stewart M73 YOUTH SILVER
Tait Stuart M73 YOUTH BRONZE
Ethan Oberem M73 U15 GOLD
Connor Hopgood M73 U15 SILVER
Jack Lafferty M81 YOUTH BRONZE
Luke Wells M89 YOUTH GOLD
Kyle Munyard M96 YOUTH GOLD
Lachlan Little M96 YOUTH SILVER
Hilton Im M102 U15 GOLD & YOUTH SILVER
Special Thanks to Thunder Barbell in Townsville, Vivid Movement & Performance in Emerald, and Cougars Weightlifting Club in Brisbane for hosting hubs for our athletes to compete.
Thankyou also to the athletes, parents, personal coaches and all volunteers for your assistance and co-operation prior to and over the duration of the competition. This all helped contribute to our success! Of course, many thanks to the Australian Weightlifting Federation for the organisation and management of the online Nationals competition.
Congratulations again to all our Queensland athletes, Clubs and Coaches on a job well done! Keep training hard kids, it is very exciting to see the talent and future of Australian weightlifting shine on the platform.
Full results can be found here: https://www.awf.com.au/competition/statistics/competitions/results/id/2750
Sincere and numerous thanks to Sonia Stenhouse for all the hours she put in pre, during and post competition to ensure this was such a great event.
