7/9, 527.5kg @ U74 Jnr , Second place @ U74 class and British Juniors Qualification in his first Competition

 

Squat: 175kg, 190kg ❌ (depth 2-1), 200kg ❌ (hit the rack on the way up)

 

Bench: 120kg , 130kg, 135kg 

 

Deadlift: 200, 210, 217.5kg

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Long story short for the comp itself was it didn’t start the way we had planned. Tom is a great squatter and hadn’t had a problem with depth all prep but got called 2-1 on the second attempt @ 190kg. 

 

It moved the best we had seen it and we decided to still go for the 200kg which was our goal after hitting it in training. I was fully confident he could do it. Unfortunately due to needing to go deeper he leaned further forward and it caused him to hit the left rack on the way up. 

 

This put us 15-25kg off where we’d expected to be so we had to hit every single lift and play it extremely smart to hit the qualifying total. That is exactly what Tom did. In your first comp to come back from that tough start and execute like he did was incredible and he will take a lot from that. 

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We succeeded with the goal of placing top 3 (only narrowly missing 1st) and qualifying for British Juniors which was fantastic after just a 9 week prep working together.

 

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