It was a fantastic weekend at the 2022 AWF Junior & U23 National Championships! Thank you to Weightlifting WA and the AWF for a superb event!
Amongst the successes: Queensland came away with both the Junior Male trophy and the U23 Female trophy. A fantastic result for our young athletes.
Best Junior Female lifter was taken out by Maddison Power, with a notable mention to Chloe Perkins in 3rd place.
We also came away with a number of medals including the following:
F49 – Junior Silver, Zoe Christie
F55 – Junior & U23 Silver, Chloe Perkins
F59 – U23 Gold, Kayla Miller-Gorce
F59 – Junior Bronze, Sophie Daley
F71 – Junior Gold & U23 Silver, Maddison Power
F76 – U23 Bronze, Kirra Csurhes
F81 – U23 Gold, Rebecca McKay
F81 – Junior Gold & U23 Silver, Kelsey Francis
M73 – Junior Gold, Joshua Swanepoel
M73 – Junior Silver, Harper Manz
M73 – Junior Bronze, Luke Bidgood
M73 – U23 Bronze, Tristan Gibson
M81 – Junior Gold & U23 Bronze, Michael Nides
M81 – Junior Bronze, Alex Davison
M81 – U23 Silver, Rory Scott
M89 – Junior & U23 Silver, Taj Marsh
M89 – Junior & U23 Bronze, Tallis Nunn
M96 – Junior & U23 Bronze, Jordan Wilson
M109+ – Junior Gold, Tashaun Solofa
There are a list of PB’s too long to sort through, and although there were no National records broken by QLD, there were many new QLD records set on the weekend.
| Chloe Perkins | F55 | Youth | QLD | SNATCH | 66 |
| Chloe Perkins | F55 | Junior | QLD | SNATCH | 66 |
| Chloe Perkins | F55 | U23 | QLD | SNATCH | 66 |
| Chloe Perkins | F55 | Youth | QLD | CJ | 84 |
| Chloe Perkins | F55 | Junior | QLD | CJ | 84 |
| Chloe Perkins | F55 | U23 | QLD | CJ | 84 |
| Chloe Perkins | F55 | Youth | QLD | TOTAL | 150 |
| Chloe Perkins | F55 | Junior | QLD | TOTAL | 150 |
| Chloe Perkins | F55 | U23 | QLD | TOTAL | 150 |
| Maddison Power | F71 | Junior | QLD | CJ | 107 |
| Maddison Power | F71 | U23 | QLD | CJ | 107 |
| Michael Nides | M81 | Junior | QLD | CJ | 145 |
| Kirra Csurhes | F76 | U23 | QLD | SNATCH | 85 |
| Rebecca Mckay | F81 | U23 | QLD | SNATCH | 78 |
| Rebecca Mckay | F81 | U23 | QLD | CJ | 100 |
| Rebecca Mckay | F81 | U23 | QLD | TOTAL | 178 |
It was fantastic lifting by every involved. The athletes themselves were amazing to deal with both in a professional and personal manner.
Additionally, the coaching staff worked together extremely well over the course of the weekend and leading up to it. It was fantastic to have Greg, Callum and Jax on board and I am very pleased with not only their work ethic, but support for all athletes and staff in this sport. This level of team work and enthusiasm did not go unnoticed and we received many compliments from other staff and TOs across the weekend! 🤗
Overall, a brilliant weekend. Thank you again for all your support throughout the course of this venture.
Looking forward to the next one!
Thanks,
Chelsea QLD Team Manager
Congratulations to Rawena Tairi on successfully upgrading to International Category 1 Referee at the event.
