Storms and power outages couldn’t stop the Oceania Championships in Nauru taking off and producing multiple World & Oceania Records. One of those wasn’t Kryzstof Wierzbicki in the freestyle Deadlift, an adductor injury limiting the special guest from Poland to “only” 460kg. That was smooth and locked out and 502kg and more will surely come […]
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The Oceania Championships are happening in Nauru on February 23 & 24 and special guest Krzysztof Wierzbicki is threatening to make history with a freestyle 502kg Deadlift. The world record stands at 501kg by Hafthor Bjornsson, after Eddy Hall set the pace with 500kg. But now 100kg bodyweight Kryszstof is set to charge beyond the
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The 2022 Oceania Championships are all set and happening in Melbourne, Australia on November 26-27. Lifters from Australia, New Zealand, Nauru and more Oceania nations will be there + all other nations are able to enter. All age groups, Youth, Junior, Open, Masters will be fought out, in Powerlifting and Bench Press. Information on the
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The much delayed 2021 Oceania Championships came to be on February 19-27, spread across Australian, New Zealand and Nauru venues, with 92 lifters producing record-setting results. Top Women’s lifter was Isabella Thomson, a 488kg at 72kg getting her close to the 600 points mark. Best Men’s lifter was Dyke Daoe of Nauru, 680kg in the
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The 2021 Oceania Championships have been rescheduled and will now take place in Christchurch, New Zealand on February 18 –20 next. This will be three days of lifting at Canterbury Sports Performance Centre, with your Meet Director being WPNZ stalwart Colin Wright. In light of the move from November to February, age groups will stand
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It took five venues and a move into the New Year but the 2020 Oceania Championships went off without a hitch in all of Auckland, Melbourne, Sydney, Perth and Nauru. Eight nations — Australia, Fiji, Nauru, New Zealand, Niue, Samoa, Solomon Islands and Tonga, plus a guest from Pakistan – and 130 lifters went to
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UPDATE 26/12/2020: Read News Update – Oceania Championships All Happening After the succcess of the multi-venue Pacific invitational run simultaneously across seven locations in July, World Powerlifting is moving on with more major events for 2020 to 2021. We all remain subject to travel and health regulations, so there has been some re-scheduling. Firstly, the
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