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Qualifying Totals / Grading

Lifters are required to meet minimum standards to compete at National and International events. The grading scale shows the minimum lifts for each weight class and only applies to Powerlifting Australia members.

The qualifying totals / grading can change from time to time.

GRADING SCALE - TOTAL

GRADING SCALE - BENCH PRESS ONLY

Extract from PA Regulations - Qualification for National Championships

6.3 In each calendar year P.A. shall recognise, for each of the following, one only event to be designated as -

each such event to include separate male and female sections and to operate by age-group definitions as put forth in the I.P.F. Technical Rules current at the time of the relevant Championships.

6.4 No person shall be eligible to enter an event designated by P.A. as an Australian Championship unless that person is both -

(i) a Member of P.A. in good standing and who has paid the full membership fee for a lifter for that year as per Regulation 2.2

and

(ii) has been an Individual Member of P.A., and thus available for drug-testing, for at least six months prior to the date of the Australian Championships which the member has entered for; in addition, time for that six month period of prior membership only accrues during a period in which the member has paid the fee appropriate for him or her under Regulation 2.2. However, time may also accrue under this clause (ii) where a person has been a member of another national sporting organisation recognised by the A.S.C. and/or in which that person has been subject to in and out-of-competition testing by A.S.A.D.A.

and

(iii) the member has achieved a competitive lifting performance equal to or better than the following qualifying standards –

and to be eligible to compete in the Australian Championships the member must have achieved the relevant qualifying standard in a P.A. recognised competition held no earlier than 1st January of the calendar year prior to the calendar year in which the Championships are to be conducted.

Extract from PA Regulations - Selection of National Teams

7.6 PA shall select Australian teams for the following international events, with the minimum Grading Scale performance from the calendar year of, or the prior calendar year, to be considered for selection to be as follows -

In addition those lifters who meet these Grading Scale criteria and also the other selection criteria contained in these Regulations and are selected to the team, PA may select in the team lifters whom PA considers to be -

Lifters selected under the criteria of this Regulation shall, subject to the availability of funds, be funded by Powerlifting Australia up to the amount of the full direct costs of their attendance at the Championships

7.7 In addition to lifters selected for Australian teams under the criteria of 7.6, PA may add to selected teams lifters who have met, in the current or prior calendar year to the event in question, the following Grading Scale Performance -

Lifters selected under the criteria of this Regulation shall receive no funding from Powerlifting Australia for their attendance at the Championships.

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