Competition – Girevoy Sport Union

UK Records Update – Summer

GSU Admin — Fri, 08 Sep 2023 13:41:19 +0000

The UK Records page has been updated with results from the WKSF World Championship 2023 and the recent Kettlebell World competition at ExCel London. Congratulations to all!

Photos courtesy of Del Wilson of Kettlebell Sport Photography

For a full list of results visit the UK Records Page: Click Here

Record updates British 2022

GSU Admin — Sat, 12 Nov 2022 20:31:10 +0000

Congratulations to all new record holders!

Liga Latkovska 2x24kg Overall biathlon world record & Latvian National Record, 108 jerk & 195 snatch (205.5 points)

Adam Betts Veteran 2x28kg overall long cycle record, plus veteran 95kg+ category record, 62 reps
Al Nisbet Veteran 2x16kg overall long cycle record, plus veteran 95kg+ category record, 119 reps
Naomi Spaven 2x8kg 58kg category long cycle record, 105 reps
Heather Orton Veteran 2x8kg overall long cycle record, plus veteran 68kg+ category record, 118 reps
Joy Talbot Veteran 2x8kg 68kg category long cycle record, 62 reps

Simon Tarrant 20kg Overall snatch record 244 reps
Abi Johnston 20kg 68kg+ category snatch record, 235 reps
Lucy McCappin, Veteran 16kg overall snatch record, plus veteran 68kg+ category snatch record, 200 reps
Jenny Whitcombe Veteran 16kg 58kg category snatch record, 178 reps
Jenny Whitcombe Veteran 12kg Overall snatch record, plus veteran 58kg category snatch record, 235 reps
Morag McAllister Veteran 2x8kg Overall Veteran 2x8kg biathlon & jerk records; plus veteran 68kg category Biathlon, Jerk & Snatch records, 132 jerk, 208 snatch (236 points)
Joy Talbot Veteran 8kg 68kg snatch record, 241 reps

Jonathan Skinner Jerk 32kg 75-85kg category record, 403 reps
Oli Mell Long Cycle 32kg 75-85kg category record, 262 reps
Alistair Lee jerk 28kg >85kg category record, 478
Jane Taylor veteran double half snatch 2x12kg >70kg category record, 222 reps
Lucy McCappin veteran long cycle 20kg >70kg category record, 288 reps
Natalie Kitchen long cycle 16kg <60kg category record, 314 reps
Gaynor Birtles veteran long cycle 16kg 60-70kg category record, 351
Oliver Jarvis Junior jerk 16kg <75kg category record, 491 reps

See the full UK records list here: UK Records

10th Anniversary Competition – British Championship 2022

GSU Admin — Fri, 04 Nov 2022 13:03:30 +0000

Competition day is done and all the chalk is dusted up so it is time to say thank you to all that attended, lifted, and helped! It takes a village to hold a competition and we are always so grateful to everyone for mucking in, whether it be by judging, lugging about equipment, setting up, cleaning up, running score sheets around, running the counter system, ensuring lifters are where they needs to be, posting social media posts, offline admin work, announcing/Dj’ing, taking photos, the list is endless, and of course not forgetting the lifting itself!

We were lucky to have two very talented photographers in attendance to capture the day: Del Wilson, who forewent his own lifting in order to take photos over the course of the event, and Andrew Bellamy who manage to squeeze in some photo-taking between his return to the platform in both the snatch event and the Halloween relay alongside the rest of his team “The old farts” Links to the full photo albums are below:
Del Wilson : British Championship Photos
Andrew Bellamy : British Championship Photos

On to the results, a full list of results can be found here: British Championship 2022 results, and several UK records were set over the course of the day, the results will be checked against the existing records and updates made imminently however there is one result we wanted to give a special mention: Liga Latkovska set a new overall female 2x24kg biathlon World record of 205.5 points (108 jerk & 195 snatch) beating Kim Fox’s existing record of 204.5. The snatch flight of this list was a top class event and saw 4 women representing 4 countries (Latvia, Norway, USA and Scotland) fighting it out, with 3 lifting over 150 reps, world class lifting!