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International Powerlifting Federation WWW.POWERLIFTING-IPF.COM ISSUE NO. 5/2012 II. BLAINE SUMNER World Open Classic +120kg Champion RAW MEET ON THE IPF MENU: STOCKHOLM CLASSIC REPORTS FROM JAPAN, INDIA & SOUTH AMERICA powERLIFTING & THE OLYMPIC CREED powERLIFTING TRAINING SPECIFITY INTERVIEW WITH CARL YNGVAR CHRISTENSEN MOHAMMED BOUAFIA 3 x Classic World Record holder THE REGIONS OF THE IPF EUROPE 33 Nations President: Arnulf Wahlstrøm NORTH AMERICA Sec. Gen.: Dietmar Wolf 11 Nations ASIA President: Larry Maile 16 Nations Sec. Gen.: Robert Keller President: Susumu Yoshida Sec. Gen.: Subrata Dutta AFRICA 8 Nations President: Alan Ferguson SOUTH AMERICA Sec. Gen.: Elmamoun Mohamed OCEANIA 8 Nations 13 Nations President: Julio Cesar Conrado President: Robert Wilks Sec. Gen.: José Luis Inguanti Sec. Gen.: Pam Cutjar EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE OF THE IPF President: Detlev Albrings (Germany) Vicepresident: Johnny Graham (USA) Secretary General: Emanuel Scheiber (Austria) Treasurer: Gaston Parage (Luxembourg) Board Member for North America: Lawrence Maile (USA) Board Member for Asia: Susumu Yoshida (Japan) Board Member for Europe: Arnulf Wahlstrøm (Norway) Board Member for Africa: Alan Ferguson (South Africa) Board Member for Oceania: Robert Wilks (Australia) Board Member for South America: Julio Cesar Conrado (Brazil) 11 COMMITTEES Anti-Doping Commission Law & Legislation Committee Appeal Committee Medical Committee Athletes Commission Non Executive Officers Coach Commission Technical Committee Disciplinary Committee Women´s Committee Doping Hearing Panel 2 THE IPF MAGAZINE CONTENT A LOOK BEHIND THE BARS: A stroll through the Eleiko production plant 6 Powerlifting at the Arnold’s SPORTS FESTIVAL 2012 in Columbus, Ohio Matt G15ary reports: powERLIFTING TRAINING 10 SPECIFICITY Report about the MASTERS WORLD BENCHPRESS INTERVIEW: We shed light on the activities and 21 CHAMPIONSHIPS 2012 in Aurora, Colorado 26 person of Anatoliy Stetsenko, the IPF-record keeper. WORLDS RAW on the IPF BENCHPRESS menu: The first CHAMPIONSHIPS ever IPF CLASSIC 2012 in Pilsen, POWERLIFTING Poland WORLD 28 CUP 35 REGIONAL REPORTS about this years National INTERVIEW with Norwegians 52 Championships in Japan and India. 57 Carl Yngvar Christensen The IPF Magazine - Issued twice a year by the REGIONAL REPORTS from Trinidad & Tobago and IPF - INTERNATIONAL PowERLIFTING FEDERATION Argentina. Including Interviews Lerchenauerstr. 124a, 80809 München, Germany with Carlos Greene and Jose [email protected] Puentes MANAGING EDITORS: Sabine Al-Zobaidi, Miklós Fekete CHIEF EDITOR: Christina Chamley CONTRIBUTIONS: Heinrich Janse van Rensburg, Emanuel Scheiber, Matt Gary, Jennifer Gaudreau, Kalevi Sorsa, Keiko Nakai, Robert Keller, Eduardo 59 Rodríguez Briatures, Ajay Tomar, Paul Sanjit Christina Chamley’s report about WHAT POWERLIFTING CAN LEARN FROM THE OLYMPIC Magazine Pictures by IPF, USAPL, FESUPO, Heinrich Janse van Rensburg, MOVEMENT Susanne Hartwig-Gary, istockphotos.com, Jennifer Gaudreau, Eduardo 64 Rodríguez Briatures, Matt Gary, Yukiko Yanagisawa, Paul Sanjit, Eleiko Original Cover picture by Susanne Hartwig-Gary Secretary General Emanuel Scheiber writes about the upcoming test event for the World Games 2013 LAYOUT: Tom Tanzer, goodflow communications, Austria 67 THE IPF MAGAZINE 3 MESSAGE FROM THE PRESIDENT Dear Friends of The Sport of Powerlifting, s you have surely noticed Since I was 18 years old I am 2) In my opinion it is necessary to install I announced that I step involved in Powerlifting. That means a partly paid so-called “Head of the IPF back on 28. October 33 years as official and in these years Headquarters” to unburden the honorary A2012 as President of the IPF. I was 6 years active as athlete. EC-members of the daily workload. This is the day, where the IPF Since 1999 I am working for the IPF The German PF has 2 employees in their General Assembly will be hosted as DC Chairman, Secretary General headquarters and my experience is that in Aguadilla / Puerto Rico. and now as President. now the honorary elected persons can Therefore this is my last work more closely for the sport and the editorial for the IPF magazine. You all have the experience that headquarters staff will carry out the our main life focus is to work in the daily administration work. office to earn money for the life, then With this solution also the regional EC- Due to increased private Powerlifting, then family and our members gain more time to push the engagements I resign to the 31. July other hobbies has the least priorities. development in the regions, instead to 2012 and according to our rules I have now decided to spend my take over IPF workload, which is their Johnny Graham will take over the life to my other hobbies, which I have mandate according the rules. interim position as IPF President greatly disregarded. until the elections in Puerto Rico. It was a great experience for me to 3) The close and trustful cooperation Johnny is a honourable man be engaged in Powerlifting, to develop with our umbrella federations like IOC, with integrity and he has a heart and implement ideas. To work for a SportAccord, WADA, IWGA etc. must be and love for our sport. He is highly big sport federation like the IPF is on continued under the new presidency. appreciated by his colleagues the one hand a challenge and at the due to his cooperativeness and other hand exhausting and sometimes cordiality. depressing. 4) Cause of anxiety is the unfortunate He serves in different functions development regarding the supportive for powerlifting and since he was I realized sometimes we must find gear. Mainly the development and the elected as IPF Vice-President he the lowest common denominator as a outside image of the Bench Shirts is represented the IPF at the 2011 compromise, but this is not satisfying a “pain in the neck”. As long as the and 2012 SportAccord. He met me anymore. involved parties have a benefit (financial responsible people from the IOC, or like “equipment doping”), we have not IWGA, WADA, SportAccord etc. and Please allow me to give you some the opportunity to have a sustainable he has represented the IPF at these personal thoughts, how the IPF and improvement in this matter. In my umbrella federations on eye level their member nations can achieve the opinion we must change our mind and and on a diplomatic way. goals and challenges: ask ourselves, what is the best solution for the sport and not for oneself. In my opinion Johnny is the suitable candidate to be elected as 1) It is visible that the current status of successor for the position as IPF our regions and member nations differs Like the motto of former US- President. I am convinced that he and we have disequilibrium between the President John F. Kennedy: will lead the IPF in future to reach regions. our mutual aims. It is necessary to have a common speed, “Ask not what your country where all can follow the necessary steps. Heartily I wish him all the best I admit that the IPF is like a strong can do for you - ask what you and wisdom in leading the IPF. locomotive that has shown a high speed can do for your country” and have pushed necessary improvements Please allow me to say some in the last years. But now it is the time words to my farewell: to take a breath, reduce the speed and stabilise the joint achievements. 4 THE IPF MAGAZINE MESSAGE FROM THE SECRETARY GENERALY Dear Ladies and Gentlemen, I would like to express to those, nfortunately we have to Albrings was the initiator to install a who mention, the Bench Shirt save announce that Mr. Detlev fixed Vice President in the IPF. The old the shoulders that we are far away Albrings resigned from the system, in which the Vice President U rotated yearly between the regional from this point of view. It is our position of IPF President on the 31st of common liability that we have not July 2012 due private reasons. representatives in the IPF Executive stopped this development, which Board, was not really an advantage, has more the power to destroy our Mr. Albrings will leave a big void because the Vice President had not sport instead of assisting us. in the IPF. I can honestly say that Mr. the opportunity to be completely Albrings was the most popular and involved in the yearly process and From my life experience I know respected President in the history duties and after one year he had that our normal behaviour is to of the IPF. He had respect not only to pass the Vice Presidency to the keep the status quo, but sometimes from within the IPF community, next person. In 2010, the General it is necessary to bite the bullet and but he was also in good contact Assembly in South Africa decided it is not too late to take over the with the representatives of the to install a fixed Vice President and control. umbrella federations like IOC, IWGA, the first one elected was Mr. Johnny SportAccord, WADA etc. Graham from the USA. Mr. Graham I found an appropriate motto of was also the preferred candidate of John F. Kennedy: Detlev Albrings is a person with a the IPF President, because in this lot of good attributes, the kind that are person Mr. Albrings saw a man who “All this will not be finished needed to lead a world wide federation. could be a reasonable successor and a He is reliable, prudent, visionary, but person with a lot of positive attributes in the first 100 days. Nor himself. will it be finished in the first the most important, he is still human! 1,000 days, nor in the life of Mr. Albrings served the powerlifting In the two years since, Mr. this Administration, nor even family more than 30 years in a lot of Graham has been fully involved in the perhaps in our lifetime on this different functions.