This past weekend 306 elite lifters Luke Gordon, Jessie Buydens and Kent Brown all competed at the Strength Symposium. Coached by Marc Morris our powerlifters came in excited to demostrate their strength and technical ability. Jessie would have a banner day and become the first 306 lady to ever dead lift over 400lbs, with a successful attempt at 401.5. She combined this with a personal best 385lbs squat and a powerful bench to take first in her class and once again stand tall on the podium. Kent Brown faced some adversity, our current national silver medallist would be called on depth on his first squat and struggled to regain his focus and would not proceed with the rest of the competition.
On the olympic weightlifting side, Luke Gordon in only his second contest made giant strides. He was successful on all three of his snatches finishing with a competition best 110kg. On the clean and jerk he secured his opener to take first in his weight class and then proceeded to successfully secure 135kgs and 140kgs over his head but was unfortunately called for a slight press out both times. The 140kg was the most Luke has ever secured overhead.
Great effort by all our lifters and thank you to Marc for coaching our athletes all day long.
-Coach