2023 World championships
By John Mahon
The 2023 World Championships has been run and was a great day for all involved. We had a small group of local lifters who performed extremely well, breaking multiple world records. This year’s Worlds was run differently to previous Worlds. Due to the low number of competitors who were available to lift the decision was made to reduce the event to a single day meet with 5 lifts being contested. There were many outstanding performances to mention. This was Charlie Carabott’s 2nd time on the platform and he performed very well, breaking the 2” vertical lift record in his division twice. Edmund Patterson (son of John Patterson) was the only Open lifter on the day and wow he is strong. He finished in 2nd place overall which is a very tough thing to achieve for an Opens division lifter at the worlds. Tom Davies has still got it. He finished the day with 3 world records. Big Sam Trew is still as strong as ever. Sam finished with the 2nd heaviest total of the day. Peter Phillips just keeps on amazing everyone with his ability to grind through a deadlift no matter how much pain he is in. The stand out performance of the meet came from David Reeve. David broke the work record in every single lift and took out the overall champion title by a substantial margin. With all said and done this was another fantastic world championship. Everyone involved ensured the day ran smoothly and all the lifters put in a top quality performance.