sports gazette

St Mary's weightlifters come up just short

Fabio Poiesi - © Justin Feck
Published: 1 Mar 2014

Four St Mary’s students competed in the London Universities weightlifting competition in Twickenham.

Joseph Westbrook, Austin Flood, James Daley and Hassan Zaidi all faced stiff competition as they came up against weightlifters from Queen Mary University of London, Middlesex University, Barts and The London (Queen Mary), King's College London and Goldsmiths, University of London.

With three lifts each in both the snatch, and clean and jerk, all four performed strongly with Flood gaining the thumbs up in all six of his lifts.

However, it was not enough to beat out the eventual winner Fabio Poiesi from Queen Mary University of London, who won with a Sinclair total of 272.28 with Westbrook, Flood and Daley finishing 2nd, 3rd and 4th respectively.

The female winner was Shoshana Sutkin from King’s College London who lifted a Sinclair total of 120.40.

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