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The GSU competition year drew to a close last Saturday (12th Nov) with the 2016 British Championship. Superbly hosted by BigKat in Harrogate, this was another competition marked by it’s friendly atmosphere and inclusive nature! We have been seeing the expansion of events requested by GSU members over the last year: doubles for women, junior categories, lighter bells and singles for male beginners and this competition was a showcase for this diversity in the sport.

Many of the newer faces to the kettlebell sport scene are already showing amazing progression, and the juniors already showed great skill in their first ever competition! It’s also great to see more seasoned competitors trying out the challenge of moving up kettlebell weight or trying out different events, along with those using the event as more of a de-load from the International competition season and so maybe trying a lighter weight and different pacing scheme.

With the newly collated UK records we can now track the records broken at each competition and these are listed below, however this shouldn’t take away from the achievement of every lifter taking to the platform whether it’s for the first, or fifty-first time! For full results you can check here: British Championship Results and for a full list of records see here: UK Records

The GSU can’t thank Chris Guyll, Becky Fraser, Dave Moore, Chanelle Mcgill, Nick Johnson and rest of the BigKat Fitness and Martial Arts and OKSE team enough for hosting a very smoothly run, friendly and professional competition. Thanks too to Organisation of Kettlebell Sport England for the use of their timers for the day, to everyone who helped out with judging, moving equipment and to all the sponsors including GSU’s main sponsor Wolverson Fitness.

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pictures coutesy of Red Lime and Niall Mackinnon

Although the GSU competitions are done for 2016 there are still some Grassroots Kettlebell League ones on the cards for November and December so head over to their page to check them out and sign up! And there is the World Kettlebell Grand Prix Series – Glasgow, Scotland taking place on the 27th Nov in Paisley.

We will have the full 2017 GSU competition schedule ready and announced within the next few weeks too!

Congratulations again to all competitiors. Including our new records holders:

Biathlon/Jerk/Snatch

Overall records

Reece Armstrong: 85kg category record and Overall absolute score in 32kg snatch (141 reps)
Tim Joseph: 95kg category records & overall absolute veteran records in 2x28kg biathlon, jerk & snatch (94 jerk & 156 snatch)
Liga Latovska: 68kg+ category records and Overall absolute score in 2x12kg jerk & 2x12kg biathlon (93 jerk & 185 snatch)

Weight Category records

Chris Guyll: 95kg+ category record in 2x24kg Jerk (115 reps)
Caroline Dougal: 68kg+ category records in 20kg Biathlon, Jerk & Snatch (156 jerk & 179 snatch)
Joy Talbot: 63kg category record in 20kg snatch (93 reps)
Russell Dawson: 95kg category veterans record in 20kg snatch (200 reps)
Allan Holburn: 78kg category records in 16kg snatch (215 reps)

Long cycle

Overall records

Abigail Johnston: 68kg category & overall record in 2x20kg long cycle (81 rep) *68kg WR

Weight Category records

Helen Clewer: 68kg+ category record in 24kg long cycle (120 reps)
Gary Rothwell: 95kg category record in 2x24kg long cycle (90 reps)
Laurence Clemente: 78kg category record in 2x24kg long cycle (78 reps)
Claire Knight: 63kg category veteran record in 20kg long cycle (71 reps)
Yvonne Martin: 68kg+ category record in 2x16kg long cycle (75 reps)
Leanne Bain: 63kg category record in 16kg long cycle (142 reps)
Samuel Joblin: 95kg category record in 2x16kg long cycle (116 reps)
Paul Eaton: 85kg category veterans record in 2x16kg long cycle (90 reps)
Joanna Tonkin: 63kg category record in 2x12kg long cycle (97 reps)
Sara Porter: 68kg+ category record (equal with Anna Moeller) in 12kg long cycle  (151 reps)
Jude Freeman: 68kg category veterans record in 12kg long cycle (132 reps)
Maxine Morris: 58kg category veterans record in 2x8kg long cycle (83 reps)

 

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