WEIGHTLIFTING: St Birinus sweep board (From Herald Series)

WEIGHTLIFTING: St Birinus sweep board

8:08am Thursday 2nd July 2009

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There were smiles galore as St Birinus Weightlifting Club dominated the British Under 13 Championships in Bristol with a host of medals, including four golds.

The Didcot-basedoutfitachi-eved a clean sweep in the 12 years 45kg category, with Dominic Miles landing the gold, and Sam Aires and Jacob Heath filling the other medal positions.

They did likewise in the 13 years under 50kg class where Alex Johnson, Eoghan Mc-Donagh and James Sayers filled the first three positions. Just for good measure, Ben Marsden was fourth.

Birinus's other gold medals came from Josh Davis, in the 13 year 35kg event, and Matthew Leigh, who pipped clubmate Peter Blowfield in the 13 year 56kg class.

Conor Hogan claimed a silver in the 12-year 40kg body weight group, as did Jayme Granito in the 50kg class.

In the 13-year 45kg class, Jake Dobson, Ashley-el-Turk and George Ripley came second, third and fourth respectively.

St Birinus will represent Britain in an international in Germany on Friday, their team being Robert Green, Eddie Chambers, Josh Cox, Peter Dutton and Ben Watson Meanwhile Watson, 19, has been selected for the Euro-pean Junior Champion-ships in Sweden later this month.

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