Ontario Weightlifting Association
OWA Club Challenge
Next 2023/2024 Ontario Club Challenge Period: Feb 23rd - 25th
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The Ontario Weightlifting Association wishes, as part of its implementation of the Long Term Athlete Development (LTAD), to encourage the participation of all athletes who train in Olympic weightlifting to compete in Olympic weightlifting by organizing a series of 4 OWA Club Challenges (OCC) in the calendar year.
These competitions will be open to male and female athletes of all age groups. The main focus of these competitions will be to develop athletes and to increase the capacity of clubs to hold larger competitions. OWA Club Challenges will give a chance for all lifters to compete more often and to evaluate and measure their performance against other lifters of the same age group and weight category in the province of Ontario. At the same time, clubs will gain experience, resources and skills necessary to host larger competitions in the future.
These competitions will all be held at participating clubs with the results emailed to the results@onweightlifting.ca which will then be posted on the OWA website. Awards will be given to the top three clubs based on a point system, and the award should improve the ability of clubs to develop young lifters and/or host larger competitions.
Clubs may participate at their own facility, or several clubs may get together for the competition. Either way, each club is its own team and must be registered for the competition with the OWA.
Athletes may ONLY take part in the competition if they are OWA members in good standing AND their club has registered for the competition.
Sanction Fee (per competition period): $25.00
Athlete Fee: $6.00
Teams may be of any size; however, only the top 10 lifters' results will count towards team points. The team can be composed of any number of male and female lifters from any age group with no maximum athletes per bodyweight category.
The competition period is the Friday to Sunday of the announced competition weekend. All team entries must be received at least one week prior to the competition period. All results must be emailed to results@onweightlifting.ca no later than the Sunday of the competition period at 11:45 p.m.
OWA Club Challenges must be refereed by a panel of 3 referees, consisting at a minimum, of one certified OWA Level 4 referee, one level 4 referee in training who has completed the written test, and a registered member of the OWA.
Ontario Juvenile records can be set at OWA Club Challenges that are refereed by 3 certified referees. OWA Club Challenges can be used to establish minimum standards for the Ontario Championships with 3 certified referees or for the WinterLift and Ontario Classic with at least 2 certified referees as long as they are performed 30 days ahead of the competitions and as long as the OWA Club Challenge falls within the corresponding qualification period.
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The OWA Club Challenge Technical & Competition Rules details information specific to these competitions including participants, competition proceedings, team classification and point system, awards and more.​ As a sanctioned competition, the OWA Club Challenge is also subject to the rules and regulations of the IWF Technical and Competition Rules & Regulations, as well as exemptions to the rules as noted in the OWA Technical and Competition Rules.