Sitko competed on the 2024 Arnold Sports activities Competition UK.
Final up to date on March twentieth, 2024
Powerlifting phenom Agata Sitko, recent from her historic win on the 2024 Sheffield Powerlifting Championships within the UK, is once more making headlines. She is the top-ranked powerlifter within the Worldwide Powerlifting Federation (IPF) on GL factors, each uncooked and geared up. She holds 11 Open world information, together with the bench press world document within the 69KG, 76KG, and 84KG lessons.
Sitko lifted on the Arnold Sports activities Competition UK on March 15, 2024, within the traditional (uncooked) powerlifting class and wrote her title within the document books once more with an outstanding 154.5-kilogram bench press within the 76KG class. Take a look at the raise beneath, courtesy of the IPF Instagram web page:
Sitko took the barbell within the most width grip permitted, with forefingers overlaying the rings. On receiving the beginning command, she visibly braced and commenced the descent.
Sitko timed her leg drive completely, and the bar moved quickly off the chest. Though she hit a sticking level midway up and the bar velocity slowed significantly, she pushed by and was rewarded with three white lights and a brand new IPF world document.
The occasion featured lifters in varied weight lessons and scored on GL factors — a components designed to match powerlifters throughout totally different body weight classes utilized by the IPF and its associates. Sitko’s efficiency throughout the three disciplines gave her an unassailable win within the traditional powerlifting class. She took house 3,000 Euros in prize cash and her new world document.
2024 IPF Arnold Sports activities Competition Outcomes — Agata Sitko (Poland), 76KG
- Squat
- 185 kilograms (407.9 kilos)
- 195 kilograms (429.9 kilos)
- 202.5 kilograms (446.4 kilos)
- Bench Press
- 142.5 kilograms (314.5 kilos)
- 150 kilograms (330.7 kilos)
- 154.5 kilograms (340.6 kilos)— IPF Open World File
- Deadlift
- 230 kilograms (507.1 kilos)
- 240 kilograms (529.1 kilos)
- 250 kilograms (551.2 kilos)
- Whole — 599.5 kilograms (1,321.7 kilos)
Sitko will compete on the 2024 IPF Basic World Championships (CWC) in Druskininkai, Lithuania, in June 2024. She gained silver the final two years, shedding on body weight to Jessica Buettner in South Africa in 2022 and by 2.5 kilograms to Karlina Tongotea in Malta in 2023.
The Polish Powerhouse is on a profitable streak. If she will carry this momentum into the 2024 CWC, she might lastly take one of many few accolades that has eluded her to this point: the Basic World title.
Featured picture: @theipf on Instagram