Weight-lifter hopeful of breaking records

Press, Volume CXI, Issue 32679, 7 August 1971, Page 18

Weight-lifter hopeful of breaking records

The national junior heavy-1 weight champion, G. May, of I Christchurch, is likely to be . one of the outstanding per-1 formers at the Canterbury j Olympic-style weight-lifting 1 championships this afternoon. May, who holds the na-1 tional records for all three I Olympic lifts and total, has i been training impressively. 1

He is considered capable of beating the New Zealand and Australian junior record for the press (2641 b and the jerk (3471 b which he already hold< The Commonwealth Games silver medallist, A. J. Ebert, is expected to compete, but is unlikely to attempt big poundages as he is in the middle of a training build-up for the world championships in Peru on September 17 to 24. An interesting entrant in the light-weight class (under lOst 81b) is M. Clifford, of Otago, who recently returned from the United States where he has been studying chiropractic. A. Kiesanowski, the junior national middle-weight champion, is capable of setting new records for the three Olympic lifts and total, and M. Smith, J. Broad, and W. and L. Buzanwe also juniors capable of improving their performance. The contest will be held at the Canterbury Weight-lift-ing Association’s gymnasium at the Riviera club, in Oxford Terrace. The referee will be Mr H. Morrison, who was official coach of the New Zealand team at the Edinburgh Commonwealth Games.