Reigning International Powerlifting Federation (IPF) World Champion in the Women’s 84KG class Amanda Lawrence is amidst her prep to compete in Sheffield, England, at the 2025 Sheffield Powerlifting Championships on Jan. 26, 2025.
Lawrence finished 11th among the 12 competitors in the 2024 Sheffield despite setting new IPF records in the squat (249.5 kilograms) and total (647 kilograms). The Sheffield notoriously ranks athletes across weight classes.
Lawrence aims to improve that Sheffield ranking in 2025, and her gym training suggests she could post a significantly competitive total. On Jan. 9, 2025, Lawrence shared a new raw deadlift almost-triple PR of 250 kilograms (551.2 pounds).
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Lawrence set up in a sumo stance with chalked-up hands and only a lifting belt for equipment. She hoisted her first pull off the floor with a rounded back to a full lockout, though it did not appear without difficulty. She reran the first rep via her second rep; they were nearly indistinguishable.
Per her caption, Lawrence has to set the barbell down to rechalk before the third rep. Her double was performed clean, and if she had converted the third rep without releasing the bar, it would have been a triple. Lawrence still touted the set as a triple for her training prep—it’s tough to argue with the current IPF world record deadlift holder.
Lawrence set the IPF world record deadlift of 268.5 kilograms at the 2023 Sheffield Powerlifting Championships.
2024 Sheffield Powerlifting Championships Results — Amanda Lawrence, 84KG
Lawrence weighed in officially at 83.5 kilograms:
- Squat
- 235 kilograms
- 249.5 kilograms — IPF Raw World Record
253 kilograms
- Bench Press
- 122 kilograms
- 130 kilograms
- 135 kilograms
- Deadlift
- 242.5 kilograms
- 262.5 kilograms
269 kilograms
- Total — 647 kilograms — IPF Raw World Record
Lawrence will compete against the following athletes in Sheffield at the end of January:
- Tiffany Chapon (FRA) — 47KG
- Evie Corrigan (NZL) — 52KG
- Jade Jacob (FRA) — 57KG
- Meghan Scanlon (USA) — 63KG
- Prescillia Bavoil (FRA) — 69KG, Wildcard Entrant
- Carola Garra (ITA) — 69KG
- Agata Sitko (POL) — 76KG
- Karlina Tongotea (NZL) — 76KG, Wildcard Entrant
- Sonita Kyen Muluh (BEL) — +84KG
- Brittany Schlater (CAN) — +84KG
- Alexis Jones (USA) — +84KG
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