London Youth Games 2018

Harrow team Bronze medal, Silver in Girls & took 6th place in Boys.

Here we are again in 2018 London youth games (the 16th of June) with bronze team medal for Harrow and silver medal for girls from Ilze.

Both lifters had 5/6 lifts and with Pb which they can not do better than this and make coach very proud! Every year since 2000, each year we have a medal for London youth games and sometimes we had a medal for 3 boroughs at the same time which shows our dedication to support the youth with the best technique and guide them through their weightlifting career.

The Harrow team sent Toby DelaBilliere as their male representative and Ilze Ojere as their female representative. The team was coached and supported at the competition by Kazem Panjavi, who preparing the team well for this competition. This competition took place in Crystal Palace national sports centre with a total of 14 boroughs competing.

The competition started off with the female category. Ilze for snatch completed all three of her lifts and lifted the heaviest snatch with a 53kg with personal best lift. After the snatch round came the clean&jerk portion of the competition in which Ilze completed two of her three lifts, dropping her second lift of 65kg and lifting her final lift 66kg which was a personal best. She had a total lift of 119kg with a total Sinclair score of 142.02 which managed to give her a second place award.

The competition then continued with the male category. Toby for snatch completed all three of his lifts with a 55kg personal best lift. After the snatch round came the clean & jerk portion of the competition in which Toby completed two of his three lifts, dropping his final lift of 70kg. He had a total lift of 122kg with a total Sinclair score of 179.81 which managed to give him sixth place.

With their scores combined, they managed to achieve 3rd place for the borough of Harrow, which was an amazing achievement.

This year London youth games was aimed to be an experience for Toby and Ilze, and the bar has been set very high for next year! They are aiming to achieve first place in the team award, but to do that we must stay dedicated to weightlifting and keep training hard.