The standard of lifting in the junior and sub-junior classes at the World Bench Press Championships was just superb. Bench press is a very technical lift and the technical mastery shown by athletes as young as 14 was astonishing.
The sub-junior women lifted first on day seven and put on quite the show. In the 47kg class, Yelizaveta Mataras of Belarus opened on a world record of 66kg and pushed it up by a kilo on every subsequent attempt. Arina Demidova of ROC broke the sub-junior 57kg world record with 103kg on her second but couldn’t quite manage 105kg on her third. She took the best lifter award and helped ROC take the team award with four world champions.
The junior women lifting across days 7 and 8 and were not to be outdone. Norwegian Sisters Selma Ramberg Storstad and Mia Ramberg Storstad took the 52kg and 57kg world titles – is this a first in the IPF? Let us know if you know of this happening before! Selma also smoked a world record of 113.5kg on her way to the gold medal and the best lifter award.
Swedish team-mates Elsa Marin Karlsson and Agnes Rudin exchanged world record attempts in their tussle for the 69kg title: neither were successful unfortunately and Elsa was the victor this time. France's Laura Mautalen came from nowhere in the 76s to take 126kg for a world record and the title. Kazakhstan won yet another team contest with only one world champion but two silver and two bronze medals.
29th October 2021
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