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Christina Ullman competes on the Arnold Basic Sports activities Pageant in March, the place she took high honors in Girls’s Novice Powerlifting Competitors.
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For the second time in three years, Christina Ullman has gained the World Powerlifting Alliance’s Girls’s World Championship.

Lifters from the USA, Europe and Canada competed within the thirty fifth Annual WPA occasion held at Metal Seashore Gymnasium in Oakville, Conn., on Sept. 3 and 4.

Ullman, of Marietta, competed within the full energy, bench press solely, deadlift solely and push-pull divisions on the occasion, taking first place in all divisions in addition to the general high feminine award.

“I received actually emotional,” stated Ullman, reacting to profitable her second world championship title. “It actually made the entire work I put into coaching worthwhile.”

Ullman gained the WPA World Championship in 2020 after competing in powerlifting for lower than a 12 months. Now, nearly three years of competing within the sport, she has set 23 World, 19 American and 66 Ohio information in 19 meets throughout three powerlifting federations.

Christina Ullman took residence the Feminine Finest Lifter Award on the 2022 WPA World Championships at Metal Seashore Gymnasium in Oakville, Conn.
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“I set six Ohio information, three American information and 4 World information at this competitors,” stated Ullman. “My squat was my greatest raise of the day.”

Ullman’s squat of 355 kilos was a private greatest raise that set new World, American and Ohio information for ladies ages 50-54 within the federation.

“To be 51-years-old and win a world title competing in opposition to girls of all ages is really unbelievable,” admits Ullman.

“However I’ve by no means been one to settle. I’ve my sights on extra objectives.”

A type of objectives contains being invited to compete on the Arnold Basic Sports activities Pageant once more. Ullman competed on the Arnold in March the place she took high honors within the girls’s newbie powerlifting competitors.

“These sorts of competitions–worlds and the Arnold–actually push me to compete at my greatest. If you look again and know you might have completed your greatest, that’s one thing to be pleased with,” stated Ullman.

Ullman says the encouragement and assist of her health club group at Wolfepack Gymnasium in Marietta has contributed to her success.

“Everybody really desires you to achieve your objectives and be your greatest self,” stated Ullman, who had additionally educated different lifters on the health club.

That sort of assist at meets by spectators and different opponents is what has meant essentially the most to her. One latest state of affairs stands out essentially the most.

“A younger lady approached me after the meet and requested to have her picture taken with me,” remembers Ullman. “Afterwards she thanked me and stated, ‘I wish to be similar to you.’ That was actually particular.”

“To win a championship is one factor, however to do it and set a superb instance for different girls … that’s one thing I’ll always remember,” she stated.