Adam Alderman

Paralympic Powerlifter from Sible Hedingham

Stats card

Height:

4' 2.5

Weight:

Sport:

Paralympic Powerlifting

Event(s):

48 kg bodyweight class

Club(s):

Trains at Zest Health and Fitness 4-5 times a week.

Coach:

Nicola Vaughan-Ellis (GB Lead Coach)

Career highlights:

  • Currently Adam’s best lift in competition is 132.5kg when he won Gold at the British Championships in 2010.
  • Junior Bronze in World and European Championships


 

Achievements:

2011

  • Bronze medal in Dubai with 129kg lift

2010

  • Gold medal at the British Championships 32.5kg 
  • Adam is the British Power lifting Champion and the World Dwarf Champion in the 48kg bodyweight class.

2006

  •  Bronze medal at the World Championships in 2006, both at junior level

Invited to to join the GB team for a competition in France and won Gold with a lift of 95kg in the 48kg bodyweight class.

2005

  • Bronze medal in the European Championships in 2005

  • 2nd in the British Championships with 107.5kg.

Adam took up disability power lifting at the age of 13 at the 1995 Dwarf Sports Association’s Annual Games. He was persuaded to take up the sport seriously 6 years ago when he was invited to join the GB team for a competition in France. Adam won Gold with a lift of 95kg in the 48kg bodyweight class, and from then on was hooked. Later that year Adam came 2nd in the British Championships with 107.5kg. He achieved a Bronze medal in the European Championships in 2005, and a Bronze medal at the World Championships in 2006, both at junior level.

Currently Adam’s best lift in competition is 132.5kg when he won Gold at the British Championships in 2010. Adam is the British Power lifting Champion and the World Dwarf Champion in the 48kg bodyweight class.

This year Adam suffered a major setback when he broke his left wrist, in April, after falling off his bike while out cardio training resulting in him being out of action for several months. But the good news is that the operation to screw the bone together has been successful and he is back in full training.

Adam had his 1st international competition, for 2011, in Dubai in October where he was delighted to lift 129kg for the Bronze medal. He will have at least 2 more international competitions before the GB Team selection process in February 2012, and is determined to reach selection standard.
 

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