Agata Sitko is fast running out of scalps to claim. She has won the open world championships both classic and equipped. She won the World Games gold medal in Birmingham, Alabama in 2022 and she took the top prize home from this year's Sheffield.
She holds the bench press world record in three weight classes and is now only 7.5kg away from being the biggest female bencher in the IPF. She has the deadlift record in the 69kg class and the total records in the 69kg and 76kg classes. She has the highest GL points ever recorded, both classic and equipped. It's hard to think of another female powerlifter that has dominated the sport this comprehensively. And she is still a junior in 2025.
Agata competed yesterday at the Girl Power Tournament in France. She was second last year but, despite not having a perfect competition, only going 6 for 9, she extended the limits of human achievement by hitting 127.35 GL points - several points more than anyone else has ever done. Here's how it went.
Agata weighed in at 71.58kg, at the lower end of the 76kg class. She is on her way back down to the 69kg class in preparation for Sheffield, only a little more than 3 months away now. Squats went OK - she got 205kg for her second but missed the 210kg that would have matched her best.
Her second bench of 157.5kg - already an unofficial world record - was turned down for butt lift. This did not phase Agata at all, and she went right ahead and loaded up 160kg for her third. She has listed this as one of her current goals and clearly wanted another shot after missing it at the Euro Muscle Show in Amsterdam in July.
This time, she managed to keep enough of her butt down to get the lift and another scalp fell to Agata Sitko.
It's been clear from training that deadlift has been going exceptionally well and this was a great opportunity for Agata to showcase her gains. It didn't start well though. She pulled her 245kg opener easily enough but just gave it a bit of a wobble at the top. She played safe, with nothing on the board, and took the same weight again. This time she held it solidly at the top, giving her a 610kg total - already only 3 kilograms under her own total world record in the 76s.
Having lost an attempt by having to repeat her opener, Agata took a big jump up to her final deadlift. She loaded up 262kg for an unofficial world record attempt. I would imagine that this number held special significance for Agata. At the 2022 Classic Worlds in Sun City, Jessica Buettner pulled a 261.5kg deadlift to beat Agata on bodyweight. This was the biggest female deadlift in the IPF at the time but we have come a long way since then with 7 lifters having done more in the intervening period.
Going in, Agata's biggest deadlifts in competition were 252.5kg raw and 261kg equipped so this seemed like a YOLO attempt with the competition already won. She looked serious and focussed as she set up to pull. It took a while to break from the floor but she got it moving eventually. It stalled quite badly at the knee, but Polish perseverance prevailed and she slowly pulled it back in and locked it out.
What an incredible performance! Unofficial world records in bench press (160kg), deadlift (262kg) and total (627kg) and the biggest GL score we have ever seen at 127.35. This translates as 626.25 DOTS which knocks Austin Perkins off the top spot for tested lifters (although formulae rarely translate well when comparing male and female performances, it's still worth a mention).
Agata's 627kg total is only 20kg off Amanda Lawrence's total world record in the 84kg class. And I'm saying "only" because it was done within arms' length of the 69kg class. Agata taking a year to put on enough quality bodyweight to be in the 84kg class is an awesome prospect, and she has promised us that she will take that challenge in 2026.
Agata Sitko has given us an amazing year of achievement and success. From blowing everyone away at Sheffield, to winning her first classic open world title in Lithuania, adding in winning performances at the UK Arnold, the Euro Muscle Show and, now, Girl Power.
Personally, I'm a LITTLE disappointed that we won't see her at Equipped Worlds in Iceland, but I have to admit that it's the smart move if she wants to be a 69 again at Sheffield. Still, keep a little bit of space in your heart for equipped lifting, Agata. It will still be there for you when you have no more worlds to conquer in the classic category.
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