Category Archives: USAWA Events

NEW YEARS EVE RECORD BREAKER

Frank’s Barbell Club will be hosting the New Year’s Eve Record Breaker 2025. This will be the 5th year in a row that Walpole has rang in the new year with some All-Round Weightlifting.

Meet Details:
Frank’s Barbell Club New Year’s Eve Record Breaker 2025
Date: December 31, 2025
Location: Frank’s Barbell Club, Walpole MA and remote
How to enter: To compete remotely, please let Jessica Hopps know no later than 12/23/2025 of plans to compete. Please submit remote results to jessicahopps1@gmail.com no later than January 2, 2026. If lifting remotely, please include the names of officials present to be considered for records.
Record Day: Lifters can choose to contest up to 5 USAWA/IAWA lifts to compete for record attempts.
Contact: For any questions, contact Jessica Hopps at jessicahopps1@gmail.com

MEMORIAL RECORD DAY (LEBANON, PA)

Denny Habecker has sanctioned the Memorial Record Day. This meet was originally started to replace Art’s Birthday Bash. The 2017 installment was sanctioned as the John Vernacchio Record Day. Since 2019 it has been sanctioned as the Memorial Record Day. The meet honors our former USAWA members who have passed over the years including Dennis Mitchell, Dean Ross, John McKean, Wilbur Miller and many others.

Date: November 22, 2025

Location: Habecker’s Gym, Lebanon, PA

Please contact Denny in advance if you plan on attending to remember those great people and set or break some USAWA records. You can email him at liftingliar@comcast.net

Steve Schmidt Backbreaker Pentathlon and Record Day, Columbia, MO

DECEMBER 5-6, 2026

CLARK’S GYM AND REMOTE.

ENTRY FEE – None.

WEIGH-INS  – 8 a.m. each day.

AWARDS – Certificates for male and female.

LIFTS –

  • Back lift,
  • neck lift;
  • harness lift;
  • hip lift;
  • hand-and-thigh lift.

OPEN TO THE WORLD – All competition in Clark’s Gym is hybrid. You may compete in your local gym or in the friendly confines of Clark’s Gym in Columbia, Mo. To compete remote, you must enter by 10 p.m. on Tuesday 1 December 2026 or your results will not be accepted. You must send all results to Bill Clark via e-mail only at yeoldclark@gmail.com not later than 10 p.m. on Tuesday 8 December 2026.

Included on the reporting form must be the name of the official(s) involved. DO NOT send your remote results to the USAWA. They must be approved by the meet director first. If you have no officials, your results will be included in the final tabulation of the competition and be eligible for meet awards – but not records. Your honesty is the key to all competitions.

OFFICIALS – Must accompany remote results to be eligible for records.

Hermann Goerner Deadlift Dozen (Plus one) and Record Day, Columbia, MO

OCTOBER 31-November 1, 2026

CLARK’S GYM AND REMOTE.

ENTRY FEE – None.

WEIGH-INS – 8 a.m,  both days.

AWARDS – Certificates for male and female.

LIFTS – All deadlifts to include

  • two-bars,
  • Reeves, 
  • Jefferson,
  • heels together,
  • hack,
  • all four fingers,
  • one-hand with each hand,
  • one-hand thumbless with each hand.

OPEN TO THE WORLD – All competition in Clark’s Gym is hybrid. You may compete in your local gym or in the friendly confines of Clark’s Gym in Columbia, Mo. To compete remote, you must enter by 10 p.m. on Tuesday 27 October, 2026 or your results will not be accepted. You must send all results to Bill Clark via e-mail only at yeoldclark@gmail.com not later than 10 p.m. on Tuesday 3 November, 2026.

Included on the reporting form must be the name of the official(s) involved. DO NOT send your remote results to the USAWA. They must be approved by the meet director first. If you have no officials, your results will be included in the final tabulation of the competition and be eligible for meet awards – but not records. Your honesty is the key to all competitions.

OFFICIALS – Must accompany remote results to be eligible for records.

2nd One Ton Challenge and Record Day, Columbia, MO

Date: 10-11 October 2026

Location: Clark’s Gym, Columbia, MO and Remote

Weigh–In time: 8:30 am

Lifting begins: 9:30 am

Meet Director: Bill Clark

The Lifts:

  • Anderson Press
  • Anderson Squat
  • Hackenschmidt Press
  • Kennedy Lift
  • Peoples Deadlift 
  • How to enter: OPEN TO THE WORLD – All competition in Clark’s Gym is hybrid. You may compete in your local gym or in the friendly confines of Clark’s Gym in Columbia, Mo. You must send all results to Clark’s Gym via e-mail only at yeoldclark@gmail.com not later than 10 p.m. 13 October 2026.

Included on the reporting form must be the name of the official(s) involved. DO NOT send your remote results to the USAWA. They must be approved by the meet director first. If you have no officials, your results will be included in the final tabulation of the competition and be eligible for meet awards – but not records. Your honesty is the key to all competitions.

OFFICIALS – Must accompany remote results to be eligible for records.

Record day: You can enter up to five record lifts. 

Remote lifting: To compete remote, you must enter by 5:00 pm 29 September 2026 or your results will not be accepted. 

Memberships: You must be a USAWA Member, membership applications will be accepted at the meet. 

Awards: There will be a best lifter award for men and women. 

Contact: Clark’s Gym, email: yeoldclark@gmail.com. 

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