Sport
28 March, 2025
Lots of heavylifting at popular Cairns Cup competition
FIVE powerlifters claimed victory across five categories in the Cairns Cup weightlifting competition hosted by the ZeroW gym last week with many personal bests and records broken.
Forty-five of the strongest men and women in Cairns and Queensland came face to face for a battle of body and mind at the Cairns Cup last Saturday, March 22, where five came out victorious in different categories including knee wraps where two ZeroW representatives Marc Rogers, with an overall of 846kg, and Kristy Wells, with an overall of 342.5kg, took the win.
ZeroW owner and organiser of the Cairns Cup Brooke Vick said it had been a very successful event.
“We had some competitors pull out so in the end we had 45 people competing with 10 to 15 coming from Mackay and Townsville even with the roads cut off due to the rain,” she said.
“It was a really successful day and we’ve received lots of positive feedback from the competitors who can’t wait for us to do another one.
“We had heaps of people hit their personal best with their lifts and some national records so quite a few people will be invited to the national competition in August in Melbourne.
“There were heaps of spectators, approximately 100 coming to see the action and we had a full house for the whole event from 9am to 3pm.”
Ultimately Cairns came out victorious with three champion lifters in Marc Rogers from ZeroW in the Men’s tested wrapped division, Kristy Wells from Zero W in the women’s tested wrapped division and local lifter Rubena Uelese in the women’s tested sleeved division.
The other two champions were Townsville lifters Aaron Fontana in the men’s tested sleeved division and Ryan Williams in the men’s open wrapped division.
“The quality of the competition was really high, we had a good mix of first-time competitors and lifters that have been competing for over 10 years,” said gym owner Wesley Vick.
“We had three lifters that squatted over 350kg, which is massive, and we had a master’s competitor over 40 who squatted over 350kg and benched over 230kg and deadlifted 362.5kg at 47-years-old.
“It was exciting to have people from our own gym doing so well and Marc is also in the master’s category which shows you don’t need to be young to be great at this sport, you can always get stronger.”
The Vicks are preparing their next weightlifting competition at ZeroW in October 11.
