Topic: Questions for British lifters

[Tom Phillips]

been having a few debates about these topics at work, hoping someone can help shed some light

1. does anyone know about the set up for student weightlifting in the uk, are there competitions for students, if so who runs them and do totals made in them give you qualification into bawla run national comps?

2. Im also just a bit confused about the general structure of british weightlifting, do bawla have total control or do other organisations such as uk sport and uksca work with them etc.

3. Who picks and coaches the teams that represent Britain in national comps, are they bawla qualified coaches or uksca qualified (or is there another criteria for selection of coaches and lifters)?

it would be great to hear from anyone who is clued up on this

[Mark Clegg]

Tom,
       You are talking about some very complicated issues ..

                   Mark

           
           
   

[Tom Phillips]

Mark,

    thanks for putting the time into writing that very detailed reply, it cleared up a lot of issues for me. Im sure ill come up with another question or two soon but your help for now is much appreiciated.

tom

[Pete_Stewart]

Interesting Topic

Is there any chance of BWLA ever being classified as fit for purpose? 

Bwla website I have always found to be useless and any information worth getting is from Rays site

To me it sounds like a disaster. Funding the top athletes while ignoring the grassroots looks doomed to failure in the future when those currently being trained in the WCWL structure move on.

[Shaun Le Conte]

To me it sounds like a disaster. Funding the top athletes while ignoring the grassroots looks doomed to failure in the future when those currently being trained in the WCWL structure move on.

I wonder if people in Australia would have something to say about that. I believe they went through the same thing years ago with their national federation