QWA All Schools Wrap-up

69 entries made for a busy couple of days of competition. Thank you to St Andrews Lutheran College and Burleigh Barbell Club for hosting this years All Schools Championships.

Athletes travelled from the Whitsundays in the north, and out west to Toowoomba.

Full results can be found here: https://www.awf.com.au/competition/statistics/competitions/results/id/2720 Numerous new personal bests were set throughout the duration of the event.

Of note 4 of the athletes who competed had just returned from the AWF Pathway Development Squad training at the Australian Institute of Sport led by Coach Greg Hobl. Sophie Daley, Levi Deans, Bart Steffen and Kaiya Marsh. Congratulations lifters!!

8 Under 13 lifters participated in the event. All showing fabulous attention to technique!

Best U13 Male Atticus Manz – Burleigh Barbell Club
Best U13 Female Chloe Dolley – Toowoomba Weightlifting Association
Best U15 Male Tyson Williams-Allen – Whitsundays Weightlifting Club
Best U15 Female Sophie Daley – Toowoomba Weightlifting Association
Best Open Male Joshua Strange – North Brisbane Weightlifting Association – Presented by Olympian & Commonwealth Games two time competitor Brandon Wakeling.
Best Open Female Ella McIntyre – Gladstone

2022 Male team shield winner: St Andrews Lutheran College

RECORDS BROKEN

ATHLETEBWTAGERECORDLIFTNEW RECORD
Alana CastleF76Under 15QLDCJ78
Alana CastleF76Under 15AWFCJ78
Alana CastleF76Under 15AWFTOTAL138
Alana CastleF76Under 15QLDTOTAL138
Selina RichardsF81Under 15QLDSNATCH49
Selina RichardsF81Under 15QLDCJ56
Selina RichardsF81Under 15QLDTOTAL105

A BIG thank you to all the volunteers who gave up so much of their own free time to ensure that the event ran smoothly. Of special note Alex Croot for transporting down and returning the competition platform from Brisbane; Rawena Tairi for IT set-up; Lesley Moyle for Referee system set-up and the band of BUBC members who assisted under the expert guidance of head BUBC honcho – Callum Hannay!! Also thank you to Sarah Hannay & Ellen Willis for keeping people fed; and sincere thanks to all the TO’s who officiated over the weekend.