The Sheffield Powerlifting Championships will return to Sheffield City Hall on Sunday, Jan. 26, 2025, in the Oval Hall of Sheffield City Hall. Twenty-four of the world’s strongest powerlifters — 12 male and 12 female — will converge in Sheffield, England, to lift against their respective weight class’s International Powerlifting Federation (IPF) raw total world record for the title of “champion of champions.”
Per the 2025 Sheffield press release, the competition was “launched in partnership with the IPF…[to] showcase the stars of powerlifting in a high-profile event with the largest prize fund in the sport’s history.” Regardless of weight class, the challenge of the 2025 Sheffield is simple: who can break the world record total by the greatest margin?
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Qualifying for the 2025 Sheffield
To automatically qualify for the event, athletes must compete at the 2024 IPF World Championships, after which a select number will receive invitations to the 2025 Sheffield.
Tickets for the 2025 Sheffield are available at the time of this article’s publication via www.sheffieldcityhall.co.uk.
2024 Sheffield Powerlifting Championship
The 2024 Sheffield was a bonanza of world records across the men’s and women’s divisions. Of the 24 athletes who competed in the 2024 Sheffield, 14 of them broke the raw total world records, and many others scored world records in one or more of the three big lifts — the squat, bench press, and deadlift.
Below is BarBend‘s coverage of the 2024 Sheffield won by Agata Sitko and Gustav Hedlund in the women’s and men’s divisions, respectively:
Men’s Results
- Records Fall in the Men’s 74KG Class at the 2024 Sheffield Powerlifting Championships
- Delaney Wallace (83KG) Sets IPF Raw Total World Record of 842.5 Kilograms at 2024 Sheffield Championships
- The Men’s 93KG Class Yields Surprises at the 2024 Sheffield Powerlifting Championships
- Anatolii Novopismennyi (105KG) Sets IPF Raw Squat World Record of 363 Kilograms at 2024 Sheffield Championships
- Jesus Olivares (+120KG) Sets IPF Raw Squat World Record of 478 Kilograms at 2024 Sheffield
Women’s Results
- Tiffany Chapon (47KG) Sets IPF Raw Squat, Bench Press, & Total World Records
- Evie Corrigan (52KG) Sets IPF Raw Deadlift and Total World Records at 2024 Sheffield Championships
- The Women’s 57KG World Record Battle at the 2024 Sheffield Powerlifting Championships
- The Women’s 69KG Class Dominated the 2024 Sheffield Powerlifting Championships
- Karlina Tongotea (76KG) Sets IPF Raw Squat and Total World Records at 2024 Sheffield Championships
- Amanda Lawrence (84KG) Scores IPF Raw Squat and Total World Records at 2024 Sheffield Championships
- Super Heavyweight Women Make History at the 2024 Sheffield Powerlifting Championships
Featured image courtesy of Sheffield Powerlifting Championship 2025.
