A little unfair to score Pudz while Big Z does not score for his wins in IFSA World championships which he won a few of.

Hanne

Well Kikki,

This was a brilliant competition. 14 women turned up to compete. I was the only one who had done more than 2 comps. Some had only event trained and one competed without have seen events before. Some of the weights here on the video are not quite right. The stones were up to 67kg and the dumbell was 56kg. We were only given 1 min to complete all events (when time was used).

We had this comp to see if we could drum up some interest for next year, since competitions in the UK had died out due to lack of interest. Most comps held in the past were too heavy to inspire new women to take the sport up. We are now in the position of having a healthy number of women who wants to compete and regular training sessions are now being put on where some of our best guys turn up and help the women with the equipment.

We have also got a lot of good guys/women to put on competitions next year. Some of the competitions are also included in a Legue with an overall winner at the end of the year. I am so pleased that UK Strong woman are now in such a great place and I am happy to be involved as a referee in the future!

Hanne

I am very interested as long as it is not in July.

I would like the following events (as in true strong woman form):

Truck pull in harness with rope
Log lift for reps (40-50kg)
Falmers walk for distance 50-60kg (maybe with a 75sec max walking time)
Max/last woman standing dead lift
Yoke race (150-160kg)
Loading race with 4-6 items to be loaded onto platform (30-70kg)

Hanne

Maybe they have been invited but said no? Also only 12 names on the list. 5 nad 6 is the same name lol.

Hanne

Follow the competition live on:

www.gometal.com

Hanne

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Gemma Magnusson has just won Britains's strongest woman again. She did 100kg on the Apollo's axle (event was for max lift).

Hanne

I am looking forward to reading about this competition and how Espen will so against some of the other big strong men.

 Travis will not be jet lagged, he competed in Holland at the weekend and won!

Hanne

I think Steve Gardner will win the grip competition!

Well said Roy

I hope to see WPC in Norway. I compete in England with them and have had some really good competitions and met some fantastic people! We just had the world championship here in England and it was a great week!

I am looking forward to competing in the next world's in Finland later this year (if I qualify).

Best wiahes to all in 2010!

Hanne

Yes it was great to see and meet my Norwegian friends in Bournemouth.

 Mari, you did as always really well and congratulations with 2 world championships done and won in less than 1 week!

I am really happy with my lifts after only 8 weeks training in suits and shirts. I have so much more to come. I did compete in both open and masters and got 3 gold (-90kg power lift, masters 3 power lift and masters 3 bench only. I also got 1 silver in open bench). I set 2 new world records in the masters. Squat 185.5kg, 120kg bench (dead lifted 145kg which was not a record). Many great women lifted and I am looking forward to competing in Finland next year!

Welcome Norway to WPC!

Hanne

I cannot wait to see the competition in London on the 18th of October. It will be great to see the big Z so soon after WSM.

Hanne

Thank you Jonas,

For putting that right for me. I did not remember that they had met so many times in WSM.

Hanne

As far as I know they have only met in WSM once which was in 2004 where Viristuck (Spelling?) won, Big Z was second and Mariusz was third (and then removed when his test came back positive). It is going to be really interesting to see them both compete. I have seen Big Z compete in the Arnolds and I am totally amazed how easy it seems for him to move even with the heavy weights that they use in the Arnold. I have never seen such a big man being that fit.

Hanne

Yes Kikki,

You are right, you have to have some marks after a competition to remember it by. I have just retired from strong woman with my last show in Britain's strongest woman (placed 3rd), where I in the last event crushed my left hand with a 53kg dumbell. No breakes just badly bruised! I will never forget it!

Hanne