East Midlands Weight Lifters Association (EMWLA),
Affiliated to the British Weight Lifters Association (BWLA) which is the national governing body of Olympic weightlifting in the UK
The Olympic Lifting Secretary for the EMWLA is Stuart Braxton, Stuart can be contacted by email
Olympic Weight Lifting News
August 12th 2008
The 2008 National Postal Clean and Jerk Scheme results were published in August with the following results for William de Ferrers students and Club Members. These are their National and also their Southern Region Rankings:
Name National Regional
S. Pugh 2nd 1st
D. Mowat 2nd 2nd
S. Anderson 3rd 2nd
S. Cox 4th 2nd
A. Byrne 4th 2nd
J. Moore 5th 1st
D. Simmons 8th 6th
T.Dulake 9th 8th
J. Barwick 12th 10th
T.Keenes 16th 7th
Z. Angus 16th 12th
J. Dye 19th 8th
W. Symons 22nd 12th
B. Johnson 29th 11th
A. Washer 35th 21st
S. Bowers 46th 31st
H.Fisk 59th 41st
M. Felton 59th 41st
R, Wade 61st 43rd
C. Prior 62nd 44th
E. Scott 71st 35th
T. Twani 90th 49th
C. Sycamore 92nd 50th
J. Martin 93rd 51st
Following this, and his performance in the British Schools Championships, Sirichai Cox has been invited to take part in an event entitled “Britain’s Most Powerful Youth” on 8th November 2008 at Crystal Palace. This is a 4 event competition comprising Clean & Jerk, Overhead Shot Putt, Triple Broad Jump and 40 Metre Sprint.
It is hoped that there will be TV coverage of this event as the adult section should include David Morgan-World Masters Weightlifting Champion, a British Lion and two of the Gladiators. I thought I might have a go, but when they gave me the Gladiator name of Gerbil, I started to suspect that they were not taking me all that seriously.
March 8th 2008
Sirichai amongst the Silverware.
The William de Ferrers School’s Olympic Weightlifting club scored another notable first when Sirichai Cox attended the British Schools Championships in Birmingham on 8th March 2008. This prestigious event can only be entered when a competitor has achieved a challenging qualifying total, thereby ensuring that only the top lifters in Great Britain participate.
Before a large and knowledgeable audience, Sirichai made a nervous start, and dropped his first Snatch. He recovered well and by the end of the Snatch phase, he was in third place, just 2kg behind the second place competitor.
In the Clean and Jerk element, Sirichai turned on the style and posted a personal best Clean and Jerk that was above his own bodyweight. This gave him a total of 92kg- equal to that of his nearest opponent. In that situation the lighter competitor takes the place and so Sirichai was awarded second place overall.
This was a fantastic achievement for a novice competitor who has only been training for a couple of months.
Sirichai, his family and I would like to thank and acknowledge the generous financial sponsorship of the William de Ferrers School and the East Midlands Weightlifters Association.
Mr. S. Braxton.
27th October 2007
After an
absence of some years, East Midlands Olympic Weightlifters finally returned to a domestic
Championship event when three of our guys took part in the Greater London Open on 27th
October at the National Sports Centre, Crystal Palace.
In the under
85kg category, Gavin Jones from the Cambridge University Club took 5th place in
his first ever competition and David Mowat from William de Ferrers School took 5th
place in the under 105 kg category.
Also in the
under 105 kg category, Stephen Martin from Cambridge University took 3rd place,
losing second only on bodyweight and just 3kg away from winning the title.
My
congratulations to all and my thanks for putting the Division back on the OW map. I really
hope that this is the start of a revival in the Division and I would like to remind anyone
interested in Olympic Lifting to contact me via the E.M. Division website at Hamiltons
Fitness.
23rd September 2007
The East Midlands Divisional Olympic Weightlifting Championship will take place as part of the London Open on Saturday 27th October 2007 at the Crystal Palace National Sports Centre. You can download an entry for with more details from here
Olympic weightlifting in the East Midlands division is organised by Stuart Braxton. The lifters that he trains at the William de Ferrers school in South Woodham Ferrers recently took part in the London Spring Open Championship. You can download his report from here.
Results of East Midlands lifters at the London Spring Open 2007
| Name | Age | Body weight | Snatch | Jerk | Total |
| Jonathon Bowles | 16 | 74.58 | 42 | 60 | 102 |
| David Mowatt | 16 | 92.69 | 50 | 70 | 120 |
| James Moore | 14 | 61.44 | 35 | 47 | 115 |
Britain’s
Strongest Students.
Every year
the Weightlifters’ Supporters Fund of the British Weightlifting Association publishes
a U.K. ranking for every school student in Great Britain who is able to complete the
Olympic Clean and Jerk lift. All the BWLA coaches from England, Scotland, Wales and
Northern Ireland submit their results which were published this week. The Wiliam de
Ferrers results are as follows;
Year 9
Luke Hastings
27th
Jack Reeve 23rd
Josh
Leszczuk 13th
Jack Howard 12th
James Moore
10th
Congratulations to all students, who each received a cetificate.
Finally David Mowat from year 11 won not only the Southern Regional title for the 16-17
year-old age group over 85kg, but he also won the competition overall making him the UK
Champion, and therefore in his age and weight divisions, “Britain’s Strongest
Student”.