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Australia Record Conditions

 

Taken from an excerpt from the PA By-Laws: -

9. AUSTRALIAN RECORDS

9.1 PA, via the Board, shall maintain a register of Australian Records in the lifts & bodyweight, age & sex categories set out in the IPF Technical Rules in force at the time; in addition PA shall maintain a similar record register for age groups encompassing:
- men & women competitors who are aged 60-69 years on the day on which they set a record performance for that age group
- men & women who are aged 70-79 years on the day on which they set a record performance for that age group
- men & women who are aged 80-89 years on the day on which they set a record performance for that age group
- men & women who are aged 90-99 years on the day on which they set a record performance for that age group
- men & women who are aged 100 years and over on the day on which they set a record performance for that age group

9.2 For performance(s) to be considered for recognition & listing in the register of Australian Records, the Board must be satisfied that the performance(s) met the following conditions -

(i) the performance was set in an event listed with both PA & ASADA as a national level competition at which competition drug testing can take place, ie. –
- a state open championship
- a national championship
- an international event
- an event held simultaneously with any of those events & at which testing may take place
- any other event determined prior to that event by both the PA Board and ASADA as a national level event at which competition drug-testing can take place

(ii) the competition in which the performance(s) occurred was adjudicated by two referees of National or higher grading & a third referee of State or higher grading, as shown on the PA register of referees (see By-Laws 10.1, 10.2)

(iii) at the competition in which the performance(s) were established both the lifter at the weigh-in & the weights, bar & collars used in the competition, were weighed on scales certified by a government authority or recognised scale company as accurate to within .1 of a kilogram, such certificate to be dated within the 12 months prior to the date of the competition or the date of the weighing of the weights, bar & collars

(iv) the actual weight (to .1kg.) of each weight disc, bar or collar used in the record performance(s) (as opposed to the face or manufacturers designated weight for those items) was used to determine the total barbell weight for the record application; that actual total weight shall be determined by either -
- the referees adjudicating at the competition in which the record performance occurs weighing, immediately prior to, during or after the competition, each weight disc, bar & collar used in the competition or the record attempt(s) & marking each such item with its actual weight & then immediately after the competition of the lift which will or may be claimed as an Australian Record recording the actual sum total of these weight discs, bar & collars, or
- an Executive office-bearer of a Member Body weighing, at any time in the period 12 months prior to the date of the record performance, each weight disc, bar & collar used in the competition discarding from use all such items varying by more than 0.1% from face value (ie. the IPF Rules tolerance limit) recording the actual weight on each remaining disc, bar & collar on a Weights Registration Form (attached), lodging that form with the Board & identifying on the scoresheet for the competition in which the record performance occurs that this registered set of weights, bar & collar was used in that competition.

(v) the lifter has, in the case of age-group records, verified his or her age, by means of provision of a copy of their birth certificate, or similar documentation, to the Board

(vi) the lifter setting the record performance

- - was a member in good standing with PA at the date of the record performance

- - has been an Individual Member of PA who has paid a fee appropriate for a lifter as per By-law 2.4 and thus available for drug-testing, for at least six months prior to the date of the record performance

The format for the provision of the information necessary for the recognition of a record shall be that of a fully completed PA competition score sheet (attached) (see By-Law 7.2) plus, as necessary, a scale certificate and weights registration form.

9.3 Bench Press only records will not be recognised in cases where the lifter also competed in the squat or deadlift in a competition held simultaneously or in conjunction with the bench press contest in which the bench press for which a record is claimed was executed

9.4 In all instances, PA retains the right to establish minimum standards for the listing of a performance as an Australian Record in any particular category & to reject any record application for a performance which is not equal to or higher than that standard.

9.5 PA retains the right to remove, & will so remove, from the register of Australian Records the name & performance of any individual member who at any time subsequent to the record performance is found by means of the due process set out on the PA Doping Policy to have committed a Doping Offence (refer clause 12.1 of the P.A. Doping Policy).

 

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