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| The WABDL Worlds hosted 530 lifters from all over the World with great teams from France, Brazil, Finland, Mexico, India and Canada...above, I lift 534 to win the 61-67 Best Lifter Award (Heavy division )against a field of 11 lifters..I weighed in at 283.
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| Legendary Lifter Rudy Lozano, benched big to win the Best lifter among the 61-67 light divisions.
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| The BIG News on Friday was Tiny Meeker hit a Record 900 pound Bench press--he had 1003 almost all the way up too !!
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| Bill Gillespie, lifted Monster weights, he is always a crowd favorite !
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| Here is Bill with James Crawford and Jim Presley just before a massive attempt
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| Roger Ryan benched HUGE in the 50 + masters category--Roger has numerous World Records and is one of the best benchers of modern times !
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| Tommy Harrison lifted astounding numbers in both the bench press and deadlift !
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| Tommy needed a back rub before deadlifting...luckily, a volunteer with an ample supply of Icy Hot was found just in time !
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| Look at the Big Benches that were done, and it was only Thursday...the party was only 2 days old !
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| Here...Virpi Pukkila and Kim Paivoke from Finland help each other in the warm up room !
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| Bud Davis, from Spanish Forks Utah is one of the best deadlifters in Powerlifting history...at over 63 years old he pulls amazing numbers like 683 !!!!
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Four pictures with Team Canada !
Top, Nancy Carpenter showing determination before her Canadian Record 223 Bench press !
Then, Warren Orr who made New Canadian National records in the Bench and Dead--
Next, I'm shown getting a 534 Bench--to win the 308's --in June I got 578 but here, my body was 31 pounds lighter..
Finally, Class winners including Jon Wolbers from Abbotsford BC (3rd from the left) he did an amazing 600 pound deadlift AFTER benching heavy in the morning !
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| Forest Hofer from the Pacific Northwest opened with huge lifts and kept it up for the whole meet ! He helped me on Wednesday with shirt intracasies and coaching.
--now here come a bunch of deadlifts.
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| These lifts were part of Tuesday's competition in the Class one or Police and Fire classes as you can see, some big weights were handled !!
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| Powerlifting attracts many diverse types of people...above, Faith Ireland from Seattle in the 61-67 age group is a retired State Supreme Court Judge -- She told Nancy this was the most exciting contest of her lifting career !
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| The lifters in the preceding group were -top to bottom--Jeff Fahrenbruch, Benching out of Arizona !
--The French National Champ benching on Thursday--- Manuel Herrera from Utah- in the 61-67 275's coming down with a record deadlift !--and finally, The Legend that is the great James Rouse from Joliet IL.
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| Above, Tireless Judge Jim Presley contemplates a hunka hunka burnin Bicep...in the middle it's the Sensational Lou Corruli who has won scores of World titles in the WDFPF and here in WABDL he went from 230 in the Deadlift TO 407 in One Jump !!---up Top it's Karen Cambell who was shooting for over 400 in the bench press in the masters age group--she later pulled heavy in the deadlift !
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In the warm up room even the WATER was classy...
the Peppermill was an astounding hotel
--one of the best venues ever !!
--in the set above -- we see Mellicent Whinston who is 83 lifting a World record Deadlift...her and her husband Arthur were THE honored guest of this years competition !
--UP TOP Manny Herrera and the great bencher Mike Womack pose for the camera..
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