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Great Britain Team Selections

Ralph Farquharson, Team Coach, and Tony Stevens, Team Manager, have announced their Team selections for the World Powerlifting Championships in November, in Canada:

60kg Nicola Payne

75kg Marian Gibson

75kg Phillip Richard

82.5kg Robert Palmer

90kg Phillip Watkins

110kg Ben Banks

125kg Dean Bowring

125kg+ Jim Blanchflower

125kg+ Brian Irwin

In the coming weeks the preliminary nominations will be put up on the IPF website, and there will surely be a very competitive field of typically 400 athletes from across the world. The GB team will have their final squad training session on 11th October before they fly out at the beginning of November.

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