As our Junior & U23 athletes work through their final preparations for the Queensland Hub event of the AWF National U23 & Junior Championships in Townsville next week we take this opportunity to celebrate the successes of our recent State U23 & Junior Championships held at Noosa Weightlifting Club in Noosaville.
59 entries, numerous personal best lifts, and new State records all went into the mix to start the 2021 QWA Weightlifting year off with a bang.
Best U23 male lifter & Most Improved U23 male lifter – Kyle Evans (Milton Weightlifting Club)
Best Junior male lifter – Ryven Ewing (Bounce Weightlifting Club.
Most improved Junior male lifter – Taj Marsh (Noosa Barbell Club)
The full results can be found here https://www.awf.com.au/statistics/competitions/results/id/2499
Congratulations to Maddison Power on her new State Records:
Records Broken
| Lifter | Bwt Cat | Age Group | Record Level | Record Type | New Record |
| Maddison Power | F71 | Junior | QLD | SNATCH | 82kg |
| Maddison Power | F71 | U23 | QLD | SNATCH | 82kg |
| Maddison Power | F71 | Junior | QLD | CJ | 102kg |
| Maddison Power | F71 | U23 | QLD | CJ | 102kg |
| Maddison Power | F71 | Junior | QLD | TOTAL | 184kg |
| Maddison Power | F71 | U23 | QLD | TOTAL | 184kg |
The QWA would like to extend its most sincere thanks to the team at Noosa Weightlifting Club (CrossFit Noosa) for hosting the event, and all those that volunteered their time to ensure a fabulous event. In particular thank you to Alex Croot for his management of the competition platform transport and construction, and a big shout out to our special guest loader at the event – Ian Moir. Thank you also to Bowen Stuart for live streaming the event and capturing thousands of digital images. Sincere thanks to our volunteer Dr’s on Duty – Dr Moni Kami and Dr Raouf George.
9 more sleeps till we invade Townsville!!
