NEWS

2008

GENERAL NEWS

BRITISH UN18 & UN23S

British Under 18 & Under 23 Weightlifting Championships 20th Oct 2007

The above championships were held in Scotland, Kilmarnock (Hunter Centre)

These championships ran very well indeed, there were 50 lifters of both male and female. I am informed that there were between 50-60 British age group records broken at this championships.

The event started at 10am and ran through with 7 groups in record time I think, we finished the lifting at around 6.30-7pm and the only breaks were to present the trophies and present the next group of lifters. The Mayor of Kilmarnock was there presenting trophies for most of the day and I am informed he enjoyed the lifting very much.

I would like to thank all the lifters, parents, freinds and their coaches for travelling all the way up to Scotland for this competition (not too much to ask after all the travelling we do down south) and to the officials who refereed - MCd - Worked the scoreboard - Technical officers and jury etc, all pulled toegther to make it a great day and my special thanks to Jim Holland - Stevie McIndoe and Paul Coyle for attending.

Last but not least BWLA would like to thank The Kilmarnock Weightlifting Club for the great venue and good food once again.

There were awards for the best lifters in each age group

Un18 Best lifter Women was Zoe Smith (SE)

Un18 Best Lifter Men was Jack Oliver (SE)

Un23 Best Lifter Women was Helen Jewell (SW)

Un23 Best Lifter Men was Peter Kirkbride (SCOT)

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TEHRAN (Fars News Agency)- World and Olympic weightlifting gold medalist Hossein Reza-zadeh escaped unhurt from a car accident on the way to the weightlifting camp in northern Iran on Saturday. Reza-Zadeh was accompanied by former world champion and his present coach Kourosh Baqeri and secretary of the weightlifting federation Jalil Amiri when Amiri, the driver, lost control of the car and crashed into the mountainous side of the road. Reports said that Reza-Zadeh escaped the accident unhurt while Baqeri was left with minor injuries in his shoulder. Reza-Zadeh and his companions left the crash site in Siah Bisheh on Tehran-North Chaloos road in a police car, which took them to the weightlifting camp in the northern city of Chaboksar. Weightlifting federation said that Reza-Zadeh, the strongest man on earth, is fully healthy and has no problem for resuming exercise.

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WLSF (Weightlifting Supporters Fund)

We have recently awarded £3000 to Kilmarnock WL Club. In the current financial year starting March '07 we have paid grants totalling over £9,000.00.The weightlifting Supporters Fund continue to seek applications for funding of projects which will enhance youth weightlifting in Britain

It will be considered as a good sign if applicants are actively supporting the Postal Clean & Jerk scheme.Write in the first instance to Brian Hamill at 36 Rowtown; Addlestone; Surrey KT151HQ, who will send an application form

 POSTAL CLEAN & JERK / BRITAIN'S MOST POWERFUL YOUTH EVENT 2007

We have booked Oldbury for the final of Britain's Most Powerful Youth event: it combines Clean & Jerk, shuttle sprints, throws and jumps.  Contestants in the gender, age and bodyweight groups are chosen from outstanding performers in the Postal scheme. Expenses will be covered in large measure by the WLSFund. The date will be Oct. 10. We anticipate providing a hotel on the 9th and running the entire event on the 10th

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MILK HELPS IN WEIGHTY MATTERS

TORONTO: Drinking milk after heavy weightlifting could help burn more fat, a new Canadian study shows.

Milk may be best known for its calcium content in supporting bone health but the latest research shows how it promotes body fat loss and has the ability to aid in muscle growth.

Researchers at McMaster University in Ontario took 56 men aged between 18 to 30 years and divided them into three groups. They were put through a rigorous, five-day-per-week weightlifting programme over a 12-week period.

Following their workouts, study participants drank either two cups of skim milk, a soy beverage with equivalent amounts of protein and energy or a carbohydrate beverage with an equivalent amount of energy, which was roughly the same as drinking 600 to 700 ml of a typical sports drink.

When the study concluded, researchers found that the milk-drinking group had lost nearly twice the amount of fat that the carbohydrate beverage group lost.

The study published in the latest issue of the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition showed that those drinking soy lost no fat. At the same time, the gain in muscle was much greater among the milk drinkers than either the soy or carbohydrate beverage study participants.

"The loss of fat mass, while expected, was much larger than we thought it would be," said Stuart Phillips, an associate professor at McMaster University.

"I think the practical implications of these results are obvious: if you want to gain muscle and lose fat as a result of working out, drink milk