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I
had a 7 out of 10 day with 10
competitors, two
of them from the Ukraine and one from
Russia in
my class. The day started off well not
requiring
me do to any extreme dieting to make
weight, weighing
in at an easy 147.5.
Squats: My heaviest opener of 473 went
well despite being wrapped longer than needed
while they got the right amount of weight on the
bar and the bar to the right height. My second
attempt of 501 went flat. I hit the ceiling coming
up and didn't budge at all. The third attempt
went well FINALLY breaking the 500 barrier in
competition and closing the gap with the Russian
and Ukraine girls who are known for their big
squats.
Bench:
I believe these were the worst handoffs
in my
life. I wasn't able to stabilize the
bar, it rocked
from front to back. My opener, 270 was
a ugly
belly bench (the only way I could keep
it in control)
but thankfully only 2 referee noticed
(my gift
lift!). My second attempt I still
didn't do well
with the handoff, but managed 303. My
last attempt,
which I believe was 314 never happened.
It took
two handoff attempts, but lost the
groove on the
way down and never got the chance to
attempt to
push it up. Ironically, I still
received the Gold
medal for bench.
Deads:
This is where the fun began. I opened
with an
easy 485, then to 507 and last to 529.
The fun
part of competing at this level is
having your
coach put whatever weight on the bar
that is needed
for placing and not knowing what you
are lifting
and how it is affecting the other
countries. I
was told after my third deadlift that I
had actually
won with my second pull of 507. At that
point
I lost all focus (yet the reason they
didn't'
tell me I won after my 2nd pull) and
totally blew
my fourth attempt at a new World Record
deadlift
with 545 on the bar. It should have
been an easy
weight, but if it even budged an inch
off the
floor, I was lucky.
My
end results were:
- Squat:
501 (I did not medal, lost Bronze on
body weight
to Ukraine)
- Bench:
301 - Gold
- Deadlift:
529 - Gold
- Total:
1333 GOLD!
-
Silver in Champion of Champions with
620 Wilks
points, trailing #1 by only 13
points.
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Full
Results of the 25th IPF Women's World
Championships
Thanks
to all my friends who believed that I
had what
it took to win. Regina kept telling me
that this
was my year and don't think that I
didn't remember
those words while I was there. I would
also like
to thank my sponsors, Marcus and Ramona
Lawson
of Global CompuSearch, Pure Power
Nutrition, GNC
- Spokane, Titan Support Systems
(AWESOME gear!)
and the employees of Farm Credit
Services.
Special
thanks to the two people who have taken
me to
the top and helped me become a World
Champion.
Larry and Ivan, I owe you the world and
then some
for all the time and effort you two
have given
me!!!!!!!!!
Ivan
& Larry, I couldn't have done it
without
you two!!!
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The
trip to France was interesting. I
started off
with a severe eye infection on the
flight to Paris.
If you see red in my eyes in any of the
pics,
it is not from squatting. :) We stayed
in Paris
for two days, then took a six-hour
train down
to Cahors with Brad and Ashley Robbins.
It was
SMELLY and I about lost in a few
time.
Cahors was a beautiful medieval town. Unfortunately,
the Athletes Village was about 7 miles out of
Cahors and we did not get to explore the city
much. We were bused back and forth to the venue.
We stayed in little cottages that housed 3-4 people
each, the hotel provided us with a buffet style
breakfast and dinner and if you like breads and
pastries, you were in heaven. We came to realize
that France does not have a lot of protein in
their diets, I think we were all craving meet
by the time we left.
The
venue was excellent and the meet was
ran without
a hitch. Plenty of warm-up room and top
of the
line equipment. The only downfall was
it was really
hot in the venue and not enough
circulation.
The
final two days of the trip we went back
up to
Paris. Visited Notre Dame, went to the
top of
the Eiffel Tower and missed going into
the Louvre,
who would have thought they were closed
on Tuesdays.
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on the image to see lifting
pictures
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on the image to see lifting pictures of
US Teammates
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Click
on the image to see pictures of Paris
and Cahors
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Video
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Squats: 474
/ 501
(miss) / 501
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Bench: 270
/ 303
/ 314
(miss)
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Deads: 485
/ 507
/ 529
/ 545
(miss)
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Award
Cermony
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SPOKESMAN
REVIEW
- Sunday, June 13, 2004
Weightlifting
At
the IPF Women's World Championships,
held in Cahors,
France, Priscilla Ribic of
Spokane won
gold for the 148-pound weight class.
The competition
consisted of 25 countries and more than
100 athletes.
She
also ranked No. 2 overall among the
athletes,
based on a formula at the
competition.
Ribic,
a lifetime resident of Spokane and
employee of
Northwest Farm Credit Services, has
been powerlifting
for 4 1/2 years.
Her
accomplishments include being the
top-ranked,
drug-free female powerlifter for the
United States
in 2003 and 2004 and being ranked
second drug-free
female in the world in 2004.
She
holds the world record of 540 pounds in
the deadlift
at the 148-weight class. She is the
national record
holder with a 501 squat, 314 bench
press, 540
deadlift and 1,333 total.
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