Category Archives: USAWA Events

Old Time Strongman Championship – Venue & Date Change

Date: November 14, 2026
Where: Eastern Venue – Frank’s Barbell Club; Western Venue – High Country Vigour
Weigh Ins: 9:00
Rules/Warm-Up: 9:30
Lifting Starts: 10:00

Lifts:
-Apollons Lift (H3)
-Lurich Lift (H12)
-Hackenschmidt Floor Press (H9)
-Kennedy Lift (H11)

Entry Fee: $0. Register with either Jessica Hopps (jessicahopps1@gmail.com) or Sanjiv Gupta (sanjiv_gupta@hotmail.com) no later than November 7, 2026.
Awards: None
Hybrid: Remote entries will NOT be accepted
MUST BE A USAWA MEMBER TO PARTICIPATE
Record day: Lifters can choose up to 5 USAWA/IAWA lifts to perform as records.

KCSTRONGMAN will not be hosting the Old Time Strongman Championship on September 5, 2026 as previously scheduled.

Ol’ Clark’s 94th Birthday Party

Date: August 18-25th, 2026
Location: Clark’s Gym, Columbia, MO and Remote
Weigh-In Time: 8:00 AM
Meet Director: Bill Clark

The Lifts

  • Deadlift – Dumbbell, One Arm – Left (E13)
  • Deadlift – Dumbbell, One Arm – Right (E13)
  • Deadlift – 2 Dumbbells (E12)
  • Vertical Bar Deadlift – 1 Bar, 1″, One Hand – Left (I26)
  • Vertical Bar Deadlift – 1 Bar, 1″, One Hand – Right (I26)

Open to the world with or without officials – Plus Record Day

Officials: Must accompany remote results to be eligible for records
Record Day: You can enter up to five record lifts
Remote Lifting: Yes
Entry Fee: $0
Awards: Certificates – And the chance to lift with the oldest ever person to lift in the USAWA.

Remote results are to be sent to the Bill Clark via email at yeoldclark@gmail.com by 7 PM, August 26th

Old time Strongman championship – Canceled – Venue and Date Change

By Eric Todd

Dave DeForest performs a Lurich Lift

Date: September 5, 2026

Where: ET’s House of Iron and Stone

Address: 10978 SW Pueblo, Turney, MO 64493

Weigh ins: 9:30

Rules/Warmup:10:00

Lifting starts:10:30

Lifts:

Saxon Snatch

Lurich Lift

Hackenschmidt Floor Press

Kennedy Lift

Entry Fee: $35 (pay by check, cash(legal tender for all debts public and private), or paypal. I would accept silver or gold, but no crypto currency, Schrute bucks, Stanley Nickels or fairy dust. If you do Paypal, it is SalGuimino@yahoo.com)

Awards: Yes

OTSM Entry 2026Download

Repetition Rampage Record Day

Date: Saturday, August 1, 2026
Address: High Country Vigour, Lakewood, Colorado
Weigh-Ins: 9 AM; Lifting Begins: 10 AM
Any USAWA lift may be performed for repetition records. Only repetition records will be accepted.
Entry Fee: None
To Enter: e-mail Jarrod Fobes at jarrod.fobes@gmail.com
Meet Director: Jarrod Fobes
USAWA Membership Required
Hybrid: Remote entries accepted. Results due by Tuesday, August 4th

Presidential Cup

By Denny Habecker

Where: Habecker’s Gym, Lebanon, PA
When: August  8, 2026
Weigh Ins: 10:00 AM
Lifting Starts: 11:00 AM
Entry Fee: None

The Presidential Cup will follow along some of the same guidelines as the Gold Cup, which is the IAWA meet which recognizes outstanding performances by lifters in the lift/lifts of their choosing.  The Gold Cup started in 1991 under the direction of then-IAWA President Howard Prechtel.  However there will be some differences in the guidelines of the USAWA Presidential Cup:

  • The Presidential Cup is hosted annually by the USAWA President only.
  • Must be a USAWA member to participate.
  • A lifter may choose any official USAWA  lift/lifts (up to a maximum of 5 lifts) to set a USAWA record/records in.
  • The lifter must open at a USAWA Record Poundage on first attempt.
  • The top performance record lift of the entire record day,  which will be chosen by the President, will be awarded the PRESIDENTIAL CUP.

USAWA President Joe Garcia is unable to host the Presidential Cup in 2026. Denny volunteered to host the event again and the the USAWA Executive Board approved his sanction request.

Just let Denny know if you plan on attending: liftingliar@comcast.net

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