SEVERAL athletes gave it their all during the Eastern Cape Equipped Powerlifting Championships that took place at Cape Recife on April 27.
Minke Colling, Ance Vermaak, Rutgar Leibach and Mornay Human were the first-time lifters looking to make a name for themselves.
In the junior women’s (63kg body) category, Samantha Harding set two new Eastern Cape records, namely, a 112,5 squat lift and a total lift of 300. In the Master 2 Men’s (120+kg body) category, first-timer Human broke the Eastern Cape record for bench lifting with 150.
In the sub-junior women (57kg) division, it was a close battle between two lifters. Anika Ferreira and Colling both totalled the same weight, but in the end the winner was Ferreira who won on body weight.
The lifters who qualified for the South African Equipped Championships in Gauteng on July 6 are:
- Sub-Junior Ladies
Minke Colling, 57kg
Anika Ferreira, 57kg
Ance Vermaak, 63kg
- Junior Ladies
Patricia Harding, 47kg
Nicola Maritz, 63kg
Samantha Harding, 63kg
- Senior Ladies
Elisabeth Barry, 52kg
Samantha Harding, 63kg
- Master 1 Ladies
Elisabeth Barry, 52kg
- Sub-Junior Men’s
Erich Human, 74kg
Simon Curtain, 83kg
- Master 1 Men’s
Steve Harding, 93kg
- Master 3 Men’s
André Ludik, 120kg
