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Eleni Guerrera: HS National Champ going to Sub-Junior Worlds!

07/15/2023 Powerlifting America 0

Eleni Guerrera, the 2023 57kg High School National Champion and Best Lifter, will be making her debut on the US National Team at the Sub-Junior World Championships in Romania on August 28. Eleni qualified for worlds by achieving the best total of all Sub-Juniors in the 57kg class with 375kg and in the top 9 overall Sub-Junior women on IPF GL points with 90.87, which was the second highest. She recaps her performance, the changes she’s made since HS Nats, and gives some insights into what might happen at the World Championships where it looks like she will be in a heated three way battle for the gold medal.
 
Stay tuned to our Instagram @powerlifting_america for links to the live broadcast and extra coverage of this year’s Junior and Sub-Junior World Championships. We will have a media team on the ground in Romania bringing you behind the scenes, athlete interviews, press conferences and more!
 
High School Nationals 2024 will be April 19-21 in New Orleans. More details on our event page here: https://powerlifting-america.com/highschool/
 
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Recap: Classic World Championships in Malta, Part 2

07/13/2023 Powerlifting America 0

Recap show Part 2 for the IPF Classic Open World Championships with experts Julia Williams and Mike Gold. This was the biggest and most exciting World Championships in IPF history with 59 countries competing! It was a tough competition, but the USA won the team points on both the women’s and men’s side, took home the most gold medals and the most medals overall. Natalie Richards won gold for best lifter while Jonathan Cayco won silver and Amanda Lawrence won bronze. Congratulations to everyone that competed and all of the countries involved. PART 1 of this recap covers the major storylines, highlights and controversies, PART 2 covers the most impressive and most slept on performances and the day by day recap of all 16 weight classes.
 
Stay tuned to our Instagram @powerlifting_america as we release more content from the World Championships over the coming weeks. Thank you to Mauro Gasan, the meet director who did an outstanding job and facilitated our every need, and everyone at the IPF, especially Emanuel Scheiber and Eric Rupp for welcoming our media team and providing us space to work.
 
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Recap: Classic World Championships in Malta, Part 1

07/13/2023 Powerlifting America 0

Recap show for the IPF Classic Open World Championships with experts Julia Williams and Mike Gold. This was the biggest and most exciting World Championships in IPF history! It was a very successful competition for the US National Team, sweeping the team points with gold medals for both women and men. The USA also won the most gold medals for total with 6 (the next closest was France with 3), the most medals for total overall with 11 (the next closest was France with 6), Natalie Richards won best lifter and Jonathan Cayco won second best lifter and Amanda Lawrence won third best lifter. There were many storylines and Part 1 of this recap covers the major storylines, highlights and controversies. Part 2 covers the most impressive performances, the most slept on performances, and the day by day recap of the competition.
 
Stay tuned to our Instagram @powerlifting_america as we release more content from the World Championships over the coming weeks. Thank you to Mauro Gasan, the meet director who did an outstanding job and facilitated our every need, and everyone at the IPF, especially Emanuel Scheiber and Eric Rupp for welcoming our media team and providing us space to work.
 
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Preview: Classic World Championships in Malta!

Preview: Classic World Championships in Malta!

06/08/2023 Powerlifting America 0

Preview show for the IPF Classic Open World Championships with experts Julia Williams, Sam Sikora and Mike Gold. This is the one we’ve all been waiting for, the largest and most stacked world championships in IPF history! The US National Team is loaded again, with 12 athletes returning from last year’s team that swept the gold medals in team points for both men and women. They’re joined by four new superstars that will all have a shot at winning the world title and bringing back a bunch of gold medals for the USA! And if winning the world championships wasn’t enough, Powerlifting America athletes will be looking to secure their spots for SBD’s Sheffield 2024, where there will be over half a million dollars on the line in the largest prize fund in powerlifting history! Our experts break it down, session by session and give you all the storylines to look for in what promises to be the most exciting World Championships yet.
 
Stay tuned to our Instagram @powerlifting_america for the livestream links and tons of extra coverage of this year’s team, as we will have a media team on the ground in Malta bringing you behind the scenes, athlete interviews, press conferences, pre and post game shows and more! 
 
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Chelsea Savit: A Comeback Story for the National Champ!

Chelsea Savit: A Comeback Story for the National Champ!

06/07/2023 Powerlifting America 0

Chelsea Savit, the 69kg Open National Champion, who is now a back to back member of the US National Team. Chelsea was two weeks out from the IPF World Championships in Malta when we recorded this and her prep has been going better than ever. Chelsea has been competing for 10 years now, but her career almost came to an end after her first appearance at the World Championships in 2017, culminating in an extremely serious back surgery. It’s taken her 5 years, but now she’s hitting all time PRs on all three lifts and looking to shock the world in Malta.
 
Stay tuned to our Instagram @powerlifting_america for the livestream links and tons of extra coverage of this year’s World Championships. We will have a media team on the ground in Malta bringing you behind the scenes, athlete interviews, press conferences, pre and post game shows and more! 
 
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Jim Brown: Coaching the US National Team, PA Junior Nats and more!

Jim Brown: Coaching the US National Team, PA Junior Nats and more!

06/01/2023 Powerlifting America 0

US National Team coach and Brown’s gym owner, Jim Brown. He talks about his background getting involved in powerlifting in the 80s, coaching many US national teams over the years and looks forward to the upcoming National Championships in Scottsdale, where Jim and a big squad of Brown’s Gym lifters will be competing. Brown’s Gym is celebrating its 30 year anniversary this year (officially back on February 14th 2023) so make sure to congratulate Jim and Janel on this amazing accomplishment and thank them for all they do for the sport of powerlifting.
 
Don’t forget to tune in to the grand finale of our Powerlifting America National Championships: Sub-Junior, Junior, Masters and Equipped Nationals starting June 2. Every session is loaded, so you don’t want to miss it. You can find the livestream on our website here: https://powerlifting-america.com/live/
 
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Preview: Powerlifting America Equipped National Championships

Preview: Powerlifting America Equipped National Championships

05/31/2023 Powerlifting America 0

Preview show for the 2023 Powerlifting America Equipped National Championships with experts Natalie Hanson and Joe Cappellino. The equipped side has leveled up this year, bringing in reigning World Champions Kelsey McCarthy and Kimmy Johnson, along with stars like Taylor LaChapelle, Natalie Hanson and Greg Johnson, in addition to returning stars like Noah Johnson and Zen McCollum. And on top of all of that there are still a few surprise legends that could join the US National teams headed to the World Championships in Lithuania or the North American Championships in the Cayman Islands, and you’ll just have to listen to the episode to find out. Tune in June 4 for the Equipped National Championships in Scottsdale Arizona. You can find the livestream on our website here: https://powerlifting-america.com/live/
 
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Layne Norton: Quick Check In Before Powerlifting America Nationals

Layne Norton: Quick Check In Before Powerlifting America Nationals

05/30/2023 Powerlifting America 0

Quick check in with the reigning 93kg M1 World Champion Layne Norton, just four days out from defending his national title at Powerlifting America Nationals in Scottsdale Arizona. Layne has a battle on his hands in the 93s, but if you know Layne, you know he’s up for the challenge. He talks about his prep for nationals, winning the world title in 2022, how he embraces competition and more. Layne competes June 3 at 2pm PST.
 
Watch Layne and the rest of our star athletes as they compete for national titles at the grand finale of our Powerlifting America National Championships: Sub-Junior, Junior, Masters and Equipped Nationals starting June 2. Every session is stacked with talent, loaded battles and solo performances all the way through. You can find the livestream on our website here: https://powerlifting-america.com/live/
 
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Preview: Powerlifting America Masters National Championships

Preview: Powerlifting America Masters National Championships

05/30/2023 Powerlifting America 0

Preview show for the 2023 Powerlifting America Masters National Championships with experts Melissa Copeland, Amy Hutchinson and Julia Williams giving picks and analysis for every weight class. The Masters are loaded with 13 reigning World Champions like LS McClain and Shelly Stettner, as well as a host of newcomers to Powerlifting America like Dr. Pat Johnson and the legendary John LaFlamme. Who will punch their ticket to the world championships in Mongolia or the North American Championships in the Cayman Islands? Find out starting June 2 in Scottsdale Arizona. You can find the livestream on our website here: https://powerlifting-america.com/live/
 
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Vin Mangione: Coaching the US National Team, PA Junior Nats and more!

Vin Mangione: Coaching the US National Team, PA Junior Nats and more!

05/27/2023 Powerlifting America 0

Vin Mangione is a US National Teams coach for the Juniors and Sub-Juniors. Vin owns Kenmore Barbell in Buffalo New York (technically it’s Kenmore New York, one of the towns that makes up the greater Buffalo area). Vin is a coach, a lifter, referee, meet director and a gym owner. He does a lot for the sport of powerlifting and he’s bringing a big squad of lifters to Powerlifting America Nationals in one week. After that he’ll be coaching the US National Teams at the North American Championships in the Cayman Islands and the Junior and Sub-junior World Championships in Romania. He talks about the qualifying criteria for those competitions, his gameday coaching strategy, how he’s built such a strong community in Buffalo, and the growing rivalry with Team France.
 
Don’t forget to tune in to the grand finale of our Powerlifting America National Championships: Sub-Junior, Junior, Masters and Equipped Nationals starting June 2. Every session is stacked with talent, starting off with a bang on Friday morning with a 4 way battle in the 63kg juniors and loaded battles and solo performances all the way through. You can find the livestream on our website here: https://powerlifting-america.com/live/
 
You can find all of the qualifying criteria and updated current standings for the Junior and Sub-Junior National teams here: https://powerlifting-america.com/nationalteams/classic-and-equipped-junior-and-sub-junior/

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