2008 BWLA British Bench Press Championships
The 2008 BWLA British Bench Press championships were held at Hatchford Brook Youth Centre, Old Load Lane, Solihull on March 8th and 9th 2008
and Wales was solidly represented with eight lifters.
Debbie Hawker started the Welsh lifters off, lifting on her own in the 52kg class with a 65kg bench, Debbie took the gold medal.
Adam Jones was next to lift, he finished with a bench of 117.5kgs in the 75kg class. This was enough for him to take 10th place overall and
first place in the Under 20s.
Next up for the Welsh lifters was Christopher Donoghue lifting in the 90kg class. Chris finished with a 142.5kg bench to take 11th place
overall and 1st in the under 23s. Chris was followed by 2 lifters in the 125 class, Neville Joseph and Paul. Unfortunatley, Paul failed
to get a lift in and bombed but Neville went on to finish in 3rd place over all and 1st in the Masters 1 class with a 215kg bench.
The final two liters, Rob Thomas and Ryan Cullen were lifting in the 125+ class. Rob finished in overall second place with a 260kg
bench, just missing 272.5 twice and Ryan finished 4th overall and 1st in the Under 20s class with 174.5kgs.
Well done to all who lifted, if anyone has any photos or videos of the event then please send them in
so that we can add them to the site.
The full list of results can be found on the BWLA website
by clicking here.