Leg 6 Postal League and End of Year Results

Here are the Leg 6 Results and Final Placings for the year of the Bob Smith All-Round Postal League 2024.


The top 3 team placings for leg 6 were Powerhouse Phoenix1, Club 3B & MetamorFIT1.


The top 3 individual lifters for leg 6 were Chloe Brennan, Glenn Branch & Thomas Meakin.


The final rankings put the teams leader board as follows:


1st Powerhouse Phoenix1
2nd Club 3B
3rd MetamorFIT1


The final individual rankings as follows:


1st Josh Davidson
2nd Glenn Branch
3rd Sam Bonar


Congratulations to all the lifters, a great year for the league so thank you to everyone that has supported it.
Lastly, let us extend our thanks to Christopher Bass for collating all the entries, calculating the scores and confirming the records achieved!


Please note: Leg One Lifts for 2025 are…
Clean & Press on Knees, 2×2″ Vertical Bars, 2″ Bar Straddle and the Strict Curl (not Cheat Curl as previously noted on the results)

Click here for the full results.

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2025 Fixtures Announced

At the IAWA(UK) AGM held on Saturday 7th December, the 2025 Domestic Fixtures and Postal League Lifts were confirmed.

The committee expresses their thanks to the fixture list coordinator, Steve Gardner for his work in compiling an exciting schedule of events..

The committee also would like to recognise the hard work of all our promoters, who without their hard work and commitment we would not have these events to look forward to.

The fixtures list is now live on the website and can be found by clicking this link.

Leg 5 Results – The Bob Smith All-Round Postal League

Here are the latest results of Bob Smith All-Round Postal League – Leg 5.


The top 3 lifters for this leg were Glenn Branch, Joshua Charles Davidson and Chloe Brennan.
The top 3 teams for this leg were Club 3B, Powerhouse Phoenix1 & MetamorFIT1.


With one more leg to go the year to date standing for teams is:
1st Powerhouse Phoenix 1 – 4594.7 points
2nd Club 3B – 4587.9 points
3rd MetamorFIT 1 – 4348.3 points


The year to date standing for lifters:
1st Joshua Charles Davidson – 1633.9 points
2nd Glenn Branch – 1562.3 points
3rd Sam Bonar 1500.3 points
Well done to everyone.


Many thanks to Christopher Bass for compiling the results and confirming the achieved records.

Click here for the full results

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IAWA Rule Book Revision & Additions

Following the approval at the IAWA World Council meeting on 5th October 2024. The Disability Lifts, Old Time Strongman Lifts and the newly approved Duck Walk have been added to the IAWA(UK) & IAWA (International) Rule Book.

The rule book will always be available in the downloads section of the website, but if you do have a paper copy please update to the latest version.

Click here for the October 2024 Updated Rule Book (Word)

Click here for the October 2024 Updated Rule Book (PDF)

IAWA World Championship 2024 – 5th & 6th October – Eastbourne, England

The Lifters & Officials of the 2024 IAWA World Championship
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Titles and Positions for Lifters at the 2024 IAWA World Championships:

Lara Bennett 60k Class Junior and Open World Champion
Sylvia Stockall 70k 65+ Class Masters World Champion
Beata Banas 70k Class 40+ Masters and Open World Champion
Chloe Brennan 75k Class Open World Champion
Pandora Holladay 80k Class Open World Champion
Natalie Voce 90k Class Masters and Open World Champion

Danny Kingsland 60k Class Open World Champion
Steve Andrews 65k Class Masters and Open World Champion
Steve Sherwood 70k Class Masters and Open World Champion
Ben Goodman 75k Class Open Runner Up
Paul Barette 75k Class Masters and Open World Champion
Brandon Hazell-Hyland 80k Class Open World Champion
Denny Habecker 80k Class Masters World Champion
Steve Shah 85k Class 75+ Masters World Champion
Thomas Meakin 85k Class 70+ Masters World Champion
David Angove 85k Class Open World Champion

Sam Bonar 90k Class Open Third Place
James Joyce 90k Class Open Runner Up
Josh Davidson 90k Class Open World Champion
Gary Ell 90k Class Masters World Champion
Aaron Hayhoe 95k Class Open World Champion
Sanjiv Gupta 95k Class Masters World Champion
Paul Hallam 100k Class Open and 45+ Masters World Champion
Matt Ashdown 100k Class Open Runner Up
Trevor Egglestone 100k Class 70+ Masters World Champion

Mark Haydock 110k Class Open and Masters World Champion
Graham Saxton 115k Class Open and Masters World Champion
Anthony Chittock 125+ Class Open Runner Up
Matt Jones 125+ Class Open World Champion


Champions League – Age Divisions


Best Lifter 40-44 Beata Banan45-49 Mark Haydock
50-54 Sanjiv Gupta
60-64 Graham Saxton
65-69 Steve Andrews
70-74 Steve Sherwood
75-79 Steve Shah
80-84 Denny Habecker

Overall Best Lifter Award Winners
Best Junior Lara Bennet
Best Open Male Josh Davidson
Best Open Female Chloe Brennan
Best Female Master Beata Banas
Best Male Master Mark Haydock

The 2024 Champion of Champions Award to the Overall Best Lifter (top 5)

1st Chloe Brennan
2nd Mark Haydock
3rd Josh Davidson
4th James Joyce
5th Steve Sherwood

Here are a selection of photos from the day taken by the brilliant Jeni from MetamorFIT gym. You can view the full Google Album by clicking the link here

Referee News….

IAWA(UK) General Secretary Paul Barette announces:

“I’m pleased to announce that Michael Perry that lifts with Club 3B, Billericay, Essex. Has passed the IAWA Referee Written Exam.

Michael will now embark on his minimum 12 month probation period gaining practical experience.

Well done Michael!”

World Postal Championship – The Andy Goddard Memorial 2024

**Updated Results**

Here are the results from the 2024 World Postal Championships – The Andy Goddard memorial. (additional results added due to postal service delays).

We thanks Al Myers for his work in collating and scoring the entries and producing the results!

55 Lifters this year and the IAWA(UK) Highlights being:

Chloe Brennan – 2nd Best Lifter overall.

Steve Gardner’s Burton Powerhouse Team (Chloe Brennan, Josh Davidson & Matt Jones) had the Best 3-Person Team.

Best Master 50-54 – Gary Redfern-Smith

Best Master 70-74 – Thomas Meakin

Congratulations to all the participating lifters.

Click here for the full results download

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Postal League Results – Leg 4

Here are the latest results from the I.A.W.A.(UK) Bob Smith All-Round Postal League – Leg 4.

Congratulations to the top 3 teams, Powerhouse Phoenix1, Bionic Branch Barbell Club – Club3B & MetamorFIT1.

The top 3 lifters this leg were, Michael Perry, Joshua Charles Davidson & Chloe Brennan.

Well done to everyone that took part – 13 teams and 35 lifters for this leg.

Many thanks to Christopher Bass for his work in compiling the results and confirming the records achieved!

Click here for the full results

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