Butters’ European Championship performance is the right culmination of a recent journey.
Bobbie Butters has been a competitive powerlifting fixture for over a decade. Per Open Powerlifting, as a raw Teen competitor, she began her profession with a victory on the 2012 British Drug Free Powerlifting Association (BDFPA) West Midlands Divisional. From that time on, she’s been a mainstay at several tentpole contests over time. Her latest performance may be certainly one of the most important highlights of an prolonged profession.
On Dec. 1, 2022, Butters captured her first European championship throughout the 2022 European Powerlifting Federation (EPF) European Classic Powerlifting Championships. The athlete featured within the raw 57-kilogram weight class — a category she has occasionally vacillated between over time. The competition is happening from Nov. 25, 2022, to Dec. 4, 2022, in Skierniewice, Poland.
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Butters’ performance saw the athlete record all-time raw competition bests on her squat, bench press, and total. Here’s an outline of her top stats from the 2022 European Championships:
Bobbie Butters | 2022 EPF European Classic Powerlifting Championships
- Squat — 185.5 kilograms (408.9 kilos) | All-Time Raw Competition Best
- Bench Press — 112.5 kilograms (248 kilos) | All-Time Raw Competition Best
- Deadlift — 185 kilograms (407.8 kilos)
- Total — 483 kilograms (1,064.8 kilos) | All-Time Raw Competition Best
Butters’ victory could possibly be more notable given her recent spate of podium results. Before she took home the 2022 European 57-kilogram title, Butters’ last victory occurred on the 2019 English Powerlifting Association (EPA) The Roses Cup. Since then, Butters had enjoyed a handful of podium finishes — most notably a third-place result on the 2022 International Powerlifting Federation (IPF) World Classic Powerlifting Championships — but hadn’t been capable of finish off an appearance with a win.
That’s, until Butters got here out on top within the 2022 European Championships.
Along with her recent European title, in keeping with the IPF database, Butters recorded the present IPF squat World Record (183 kilograms/403.4 kilos) on the 2022 IPF contest. Here’s a rundown of among the more notable results of Butters’ profession:
Bobbie Butters | Notable Profession Results
- 2012 BDFPA West Midlands Divisional (Teen/Raw) — First place | First profession victory
- 2013 BDFPA British Powerlifting Championships (Teen/Raw) — First place
- 2016 EPA North West Team Competition (Open/Raw) — First place
- 2017, 2019 EPA The Roses Cup (Open/Raw) — First place
- 2018 EPF European Classic Powerlifting Championships (Open/Raw) — Third place
- 2019 British Powerlifting (BP) British Women’s Classic Powerlifting Championships (Open/Raw) — First place
- 2021-2022 IPF World Classic Powerlifting Championships (Open/Raw) — Third place
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The 2022 European Championships may be the last time Butters is seen on a sanctioned lifting platform throughout the 2022 calendar 12 months. By the point she competes next, she may parlay her European victory into some momentum for consistent flourishes next 12 months.
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