Brandon

Congratulations Brandon for your performance this past weekend!

Brandon is a 69 kg lifter and made a 91 kg snatch and a 110 kg clean and jerk.  201 kg total.

Congratulations Jason!

Congratulations to our coach, Jason Davidson, who just completed the Level 2 USA Weightlifting coach's course.

Leo Temeshenko

We are very sorry to hear about the passing of our friend and mentor, Leo Temeshenko. 

Leo refereeing the Raleigh Open, May 19th, 2012.

From USA Weightlifting: "A long-time member of USA Weightlifting and active in the North Carolina LWC, Leo served on the Board of Directors from 2009 through 2010, was an IWF Category I Referee, served on USAW's Technical Committee, and officiated regularly at our national events. We appreciate Leo's many years of service and he will be missed by his many friends in weightlifting."

Leo has helped many of the clubs here in North Carolina by certifying referees, officiating meets, and just being as helpful as he could to all of us new to this sport. He will be missed.

Raleigh Open

Our first meet was a great success if only judged by the amount of fun everyone seemed to be having.  We had a lot of help from multiple gyms and individuals in the form of planning, officiating, announcing, loaning equipment, and traveling long distances to participate.

A special congratulations to our own lifters who all set PRs on the platform yesterday and our first time lifters who had an exceptional first meet.  Jason Martin and Manual Ramos totaled 165 and 215 respectively; not bad for having trained less than a year.

Thank you especially to Mike and Sally McKenna, Leo Temeshenko, Christine Petty, Bobby Huggett, Dave Rubin, Ashley Totten, Lori Fellala, Chris Hoina and the Raleigh Athletic Performance Center staff for all their help.

Masters lifter, 80-84 years old age class.

Schedule for the Raleigh Open

Here is the final schedule for the May 19th Raleigh Open, we hope to see you there!

Women's weigh-in: 8:00-9:00 am
First Session, women:  10:00 am
Men's weigh-in:  10:00-11:00 am
Second Session, men: 12:00 noon

*Boys under 13 will lift with the women's 10:00 session.  

For our address and a map, see our "About RWC" page.

2012 Raleigh Open Weightlifting Championships

This National Qualifying meet is fully sanctioned by USA Weightlifting, and is hosted by Athletic Performance Center and the Raleigh Weightlifting Club.

Registration is open to all USA Weightlifting-registered athletes (USAW Registration will be available onsite). YOU MUST BE A USAW MEMBER TO COMPETE OR PARTICIPATE.

Weigh-ins will be from 7:30-8:30am, all lifting starts at 9:30 am.  A more detailed schedule will be made available two weeks from the competition. 

On-line Registration

Weightlifting Clinic with Mike McKenna

This was a great success.  Many PRs were set yesterday and a lot of new lifters learned and improved their technique.   A special thanks to Mike McKenna who put on a solid clinic with excellent instruction.  We look forward to having him down again to direct our first meet in May and instruct a few more clinics.