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East Midlands Bench Press Championships 2007

Paul Doherty was British Barbell's sole representative in this competition, following up on his disappointment at the British Bench Press Championships back in February, where he narrowly missed taking the title, he was determined to break his competition best lift of 240kg. His opener of 220kg was a formality and got on him on the score sheet, his next lift of 240kg was to prove more testing, and losing his line slightly he got stuck half way. However, Paul was determined to get a new personal best, and was confident that the second attempt had just been a technical error. For his final attempt he chose 250kg, to the surprise of many of the spectators. Paul managed to get really fired up for the attempt and muscled the weight up, for three white lights. Paul won his weight class and took the best lifter trophy as well. Congratulations go to Paul for this long awaited personal best, and the first person in the club to break the quarter of tonne mark on the Bench! The next target is break 600lb (he will need 275kg).

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