Heavy Lift Championship
By Eric Todd
For this year’s championship, we tried something different. I got a call from Big Frank Ciavattone a few months back suggesting a meet with multiple locations. This year we hosted on at my house in the Kansas City area and one at Frank’s gym in the Boston area. WE had a total of 13 lifters with seven at my place and six at Frank’s. I was unsure of how the logistics would work out in regard to getting results tallied in a timely fashion with me having to get his results from him digitally, but it worked famously. In the 32 years since this meets inception, there have been nine unique women’s champions and thirteen unique men’s champions. This year, Jessica Hopps defended her title against former women’s champion, Mary McConnaughey. Mary was returning to competition after about a ten-year sabbatical. After many top three finishes, Chad Ullom found his way to the top of the podium in his first championship effort. He bested Abe Smith, who was also a former champion, having won the title back in 2001.The lifting was fierce, and the comradery fantastic. Below are the results:
Heavy Lift Championship
ET’s House of Iron and Stone
Turney, MO
May 10, 2025
Meet Director: Eric Todd
Meet Announcer: Eric Todd
Score Keeper: Eric Todd
The hostess with the mostest and sandwich maker/deliverer: Phoebe Todd
The One Official system was used for all lifts
Officials: Dave Glasgow, Eric Todd
Loaders: All lifters
Women’s Division
| Athlete | Age division | weight class | neck lift | hand and thigh | hip lift | total | adjusted | place |
| Jessica Hopps | 40 | 90 | 210 | 710 | 910 | 1830 | 1714.8 | 1st |
| Mary McConnaughey | 65 | 125+ | 140 | 350 | 400 | 890 | 810.8 | 2nd |
Men’s Division
| Athlete | Age Division | weight class | neck lift | hand and thigh | hip lift | total | adjusted | place |
| Chad Ullom | 50 | 100 | 810 | 1100 | 1500 | 3410 | 3312.8 | 1st |
| Abe Smith | 40 | 90 | 555 | 1150 | 1500 | 3205 | 3058.2 | 2nd |
| Nils Larson | 65 | 115 | 450 | 810 | 1710 | 2970 | 2985.5 | 3rd |
| Dan Jones | 40 | 80 | 300 | 1000 | 1710 | 3010 | 2971.3 | 4th |
| Carl Puzin | 65 | 110 | 210 | 710 | 1400 | 2320 | 2732,2 | 5th |
| Dave DeForest | 65 | 85 | 385 | 650 | 1100 | 2135 | 2538.9 | 6th |
| Frank Ciavattone | 70 | 125 | 350 | 660 | 1200 | 2210 | 2277 | 7th |
| Wade Marchand | 55 | 75 | 210 | 560 | 1120 | 1890 | 2192.4 | 8th |
| Tony Lupo | 55 | 115 | 200 | 510 | 1100 | 1810 | 1737.6 | 9th |
| Everett Todd | 13 | 55 | 250 | 350 | 400 | 1000 | 1662.8 | 10th |
| Joe Caron | 80 | 90 | 140 | 375 | 350 | 865 | 1137.1 | 11th |