April Baldassarre is returning from the 2022 AWPC World Championships with some new iron.
The Dawson Creek powerlifter picked up a Silver medal in Manchester, UK this week.
“My time in the UK has been amazing, and everyone has been so welcoming to us Canadians,” she said to the Mirror.
“The competition was absolutely one I will never forget. As always I learned something new about the sport both training wise and competition wise.”
Baldasserre picked up the win in the Open Classic Raw 90kg category.
“(It) was a true test of my strength and hard work over the years.”
A hometown British competitor won the category, with a US lifter finishing third.
Baldassarre has been powerlifting for a couple of years now – and a May lift in Prince George saw her qualify for the big UK event.
“I enjoy weight lifting, enjoy the goal building and pushing the limits, goals breaking and aiming for new numbers,” she told the Mirror last month.
“As for my numbers, I finished close to where I wanted to overall. Back squat was right on point with a final lift of 330.6lbs,” she says.
“Bench was also on point, for my final lift of 181.3lb.”
April and her coach decided to keep it close to training numbers for the lift.
“We knew I could pull those numbers for sure. Deadlift final numbers were 336.2. Which I was happy with. Which gave me an overall total of 847lbs,” she says.
Baldassarre says she is right back into training upon touching back down in Mile Zero.
“I dive right back into training for the Northern Classic held at XConditioning in Prince George in November,” she says.
“It was a true honour to have competed on the world stage.”
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