THE winner of the Wayne Sharpe Inter-School Benchpress Perpetual Trophy this year was O’Connor Catholic College.
Overall placings for 2013 were first O’Connor Catholic College with 87 points, second place Duval High School with 37 points, third place Inverell High School with 20 points and fourth place Yass High School with 19 points.
“I would like to congratulate all the lifters who participated in this year’s event and to thank all the schools who attended. I would like to specially thank Inverell and Yass High Schools for travelling great distances to be a part of the event this year,” Wayne said.
“Thankyou also to the school coaches Peter Harris from Duval High, David Lush from O’Connor Catholic College and David Anderson from Yass High School and Doug Hunt from Inverell High School as well as the competition officials Shane Bennet and Chris Bennet, Lucy Maynard and Brendan Laurie, all of whom made this year’s event such a tremendous success with their professionalism,” Wayne added.
Special thanks to Duval High School for hosting the event this year and to Duval and O’Connor for the use of their equipment.
Results
Friday 26 July, 2013.
Student lifters from Duval High School and O’Connor Catholic College both in Armidale, and from as far as Inverell High School, and Yass High School in the Southern Highlands presented a high quality field of competitors last Friday at the special anniversary 20th Inter-School Bench press Tournament held at Duval High School. All vying for the prestigious Wayne Sharpe Inter-School Benchpress Perpetual Trophy, the full wrap-up of results are:
GIRLS
54kg Division: 1st Amy Roff, O’Connor Catholic College, 27.5kg lift; 2nd Rachel Coles, O’Connor Catholic College, 25kg lift.
64kg Division: 1st Kourtnee McFarlane, Duval High School, 40kg lift; 2nd Sarah Byrne, O’Connor Catholic College, 32.5kg lift
70kg Division: 1st Emily Turkovic, O’Connor Catholic College, 27.5kg lift.
BOYS
59kg Division: 1st Brenden Lowe, O’Connor Catholic College, 60kg lift; 2nd Scott Loney, Yass High School, 40kg lift.
70kg Division: 1st Brennan Czinner, O’Connor Catholic College, 80kg lift; Eq 2nd Nicholas Parker and Renan Gios, both from Inverell High School, 80kg lift; 3rd James Prater, Duval High school, 60kg lift (down to bodyweight to determine 1st and 2nd positions!)
76kg Division: 1st Ben Snell, O’Connor Catholic College, 95kg lift; 2nd James Frost, O’Connor Catholic College; 77.5kg lift; 3rd Harrison Jeffrey, Inverell High School, 75kg lift.
83kg Division: 1st Henry Dunshea, O’Connor Catholic College, 85kg lift; 2nd Alex Wojno, Duval High School, 70kg lift.
91kg Division: 1st Benjamin Schutte-Malouff, Duval High School, 75kg lift.
Over 108kg Division: 1st Robert Alexander, Yass High School, 45kg lift.
Congratulations go to all the lifters for their fine performances, and especially to Kourtnee McFarlane from Duval High School who broke an Inter-School Bench record in the girls 64kg division.
There were many credible achievements with Brenden Lowe, Brennan Czinner, Ben Snell, James Frost and Henry Dunshea of O’Connor Catholic College and Nicholas Parker, Renan Gios and Harrison Jeffrey from Inverell High School all lifting equal to or in excess of their own bodyweight.
Female “Lifter of the Meet” went to record-breaker Kourtnee McFarlane (Duval High School), whilst the Male “Lifter of the Meet” went to Ben Snell (O’Connor Catholic College).
The Lifter Team Award Trophy went to Duval High School, followed very narrowly in 2nd place by O’Connor Catholic College and Inverell High School in 3rd place.
The Dip-Bar and Chin-Up Events were also very strongly contested amongst the boys following the main Bench Press event.
The winners of the Dip-Bar event were:
GIRLS: Sarah Byrne of O’Connor Catholic College.
BOYS: Henry Dunshea of O’Connor Catholic College.
The winner of the Chin-Up event was:
BOYS: Henry Dunshea of O’Connor Catholic College.
Organiser of the event, Paralympian and Commonwealth Games Powerlifter Wayne Sharpe, said that this year’s event celebrated 20 years of this competition. As such, a number of special activities and sponsors were added to this year’s program, along with a very special guest.
Current junior U/105kg divison National Record-holder, Jesse McEwen, from Byron Bay presented a very interesting and inspiring talk of how he got into Powerlifting along with his experiences at the recent World Powerlifting Championships held in Russia. Jesse went on to provide a thrilling demonstration of his bench press skills to the joy of competitors, spectators and officials alike.
Local business houses also came on board this year, providing additional prizes to the event.
Collins Armidale Bookshop awarded prizes to the female and male lifter who lifted the heaviest weight in competition. These prizes were awarded to:
GIRL: Kourtnee McFarlane of Duval High School.
BOY: Ben Snell of O’Connor Catholic College.
Armidale Sportspower awarded prizes to each school for overall placings.
