Doncaster Allrounders
About the club
I am the treasurer of the Doncaster Allrounders powerlifting club.
I am a weightlifting and powerlifting Instructor with a BAWLA certificate.
Also I am a referee as are others in the club.
Training days Tuesdays and Thursdays 7 p.m. and Sunday mornings 11.30 am. We are affiliated to G.B.P.F casual members are also welcome to lift in competition you need to be a member of the Great Britain Powerlifting Federation
We all compete in various championships through the year.
Our local championship is the South Yorkshires both equipped and unequipped.
We also compete in is Y. N.E. British equipped and unequipped championships and the masters. There are bench press only competitions the we participate in. Anyone is welcome to join the club, or have a look around
Al
The Donny boys bring home the gold!
It's been a great 2011 for the Allrounders Club with some of our lifters doing particularly well this year. Tom Collins improved on his British bench record and gained a bronze medal at the European Championships; Mick Coopey setting a new YNE squat record; Mario Middleton upping the YNE bench record; Paul Wray setting a Commonwealth raw bench press record plus lots of PBs were achieved by our other members.
The club was well represented in this year's competitions with Mario and Alan Morris selected for the Roses match and Tom, Phil Frost, Sheridan Wray and Paul Wray picked for the England team in the 4th Commonwealth Powerlifting Championships held in Bournemouth. The England team won the title of overall champions with all four of our lifters bringing home gold medals and Sheridan being awarded the 3rd best lifter in the bench competition. A great achievement by all four lifters when you take into account that there were over 300 competitors from 13 different countries taking part.
On the domestic front we held a very successful club competition at the beginning of December which showed that we have some bright young prospects for the future. Sheridan Atkinson especially standing out with a very impressive dead lift of 225kg at 74kg Junior class. It also highlighted that a few old stagers might be making a comeback with Alan Twigg lifting a magnificent 192.5 dead lift at the ripe old age of 63 at a body weight of 75.6 kg.
Can we improve on this performance in 2012? Well I think we have a great chance of doing so having the right mix of experienced lifters and good up-and-coming prospects plus a healthy degree of in-house rivalry and competition in the club.
Well done to everyone.
British and Y.N.E. Bench record holder Tom Collins
Tom competes in the masters category and holds Yorkshire records M2 and M3 also a M3 British record on the bench press with 185kg at the body weight of 105 kg.
Tom has competed in two World championships one at Orlando U.S.A. and the other at Rodby Denmark.
Also two European masters championships in France and Luxemburg.
The next world masters bench press is to be held in April 2012 at Denver Colorado USA.
All being well Tom will be competing we all hope that he brings a gold medal home.
