News Letter 3/5/07

Coming off a successful Women's Nationals meet in Baton Rouge, LA last weekend, Sioux-z Hartwig-Gary received additional good news. She was elected to serve as Athlete's Representative by the USAPL members. Along with Shawn Cain, Jennifer (Rey) Gaudreau, Wade Hooper and William Morris, she will serve two years. While the responsibilities are not specific or clear in the by-laws by-laws (pdf) (word doc word), Athlete's Representatives do have voting rights on the National Committee.

Sioux-z has posted a summary of her experience at the Nationals along with pictures at her web site.

ADAU News:
Informationa and registration information for the Power Day Classic, Powerlifting Nationals and Central PA Open is now available at the ADAU web site. This years Nationals will be held in Hagerstown, MD and Kevin Prosser (Maryland State Chairman) is the meet director.

APA News:
Eastern States is scheduled for April 14 in California, MD. Please note that you are no longer able to download an entry form from the web site. It appears that the APA is now using PayPal.

APF News:
Results and coverage from the Arnold:

EliteFTS EliteFTS and pictures pictures.

From Powerlifting Watch:
Updates and notable records setters:
Ryan Kennelly
Mike Wolfley
Rob Luyando
Joe Ceklovsky
Brad Heck
Paul Childress - guest lifter
Andy Bolton
Evgen Yarmbash
Brian Schwab

IPF News:
World Master's Bench Press Championships web site has been launced.

The IPF announced this past week:

"World Police & Fire Games, Adelaide Australia March 2007.
All IPF nations, lifters & officials should note this is not an IPF run or sanctioned event. The IPF has been advised that athletes or officials under suspension will be allowed to participate in the Powerlifting events at the Games. The Powerlifting events have been called "Bench Press" & "Push Pull". Any IPF lifter or official taking part in these Games thus runs the risk of contravening the IPF rules regarding participation in non-sanctioned events & against suspended lifters or officials. The IPF strongly advises lifters & officials to not participate in these Games".

Information has been posted for the 2007 Men's & Women's World Powerlifting Champinoships has been posted. This years contest will be competed in Soelden, Austria the week of October 14-20:

Invitation
Nominations

Information has been posted for the 2007 Sub-Junior's and Junior's World Powerlifting Championships that will be held in LaGarde, France. Competition will take place September 4-8:
Web site
Invitation
Niminations

USAPL News:
Christy Newman has posted pictures taken at the 2007 Women's Powerlifting Championships.

As a result of a positve drug test from the '06 World Powerlifting Championships and the disqualification of Michal Wilk (Poland), Jason Beck (USA) has been awarded the Silver Medal.

Invites and information for the 2007 NAPF team has been posted by James Hart:

Women's team
Women's junior team
Women's masters team

Deadline for accepting/declining a slot was March 4th. As of the 4th, there were a couple of slots not filled. If you accepted an invite and were not contacted, you should contact James Hart (402)470-3672. There are also 7 more men's sub-junior/junior slots and a few men's masters slots still not filled.

News from the World Around Us:
Powerlifting Watch for news, comments and opinions.

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