Northern Weightlifting Contests 

Northern Weightlifting Calendar of Events for 2025

Due to the high cost of Living the Schools events will be run separately for each region in order to reduce the cost of the Competitions and travel expenses for the Athletes and Parents.

NWL Schools - March 29th - Weight & Cakes, Sunderland

Weights and Cakes, Upper Floor, The Kings Road, Southwick, Sunderland, SR5 2JD.

Registration form can be found click here 

CLOSING DATE Sunday 2nd March 2025

Bergson Trophy and Les Green Award Team Competitions - May 24-25th - TBC

NWL Regional Masters - June 28-29th - TBC

NWL Schools - July 28-29th - TBC

NWL Schools - October 11-12th - TBC

BAWLA Northern Masters - November 8-9th - TBC 

British and International Masters Events 2025

British Masters 2025 - 21st-23rd February - Bangor University

European Masters 2025- 2nd-10th May - Grand Blue Fafa Resort, Golem, Durres, Albania

World Masters 2025 - 4-13th September - Las Vegas, Nevada, USA

A number of events are still awaiting confirmation of date and venue. Whilst we will endeavour to ensure that these dates and venues do not change we reserve the right to amend or update them where circumstances dictate.   

If any clubs would be interested in hosting any of the competitions this year, or would like to run a novice/development event then please put your venue forward either via the website or contact Chris Baker ( This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it ).

For the latest events list from British Weight Lifting click here and for British Masters Weight Lifting click here. 

Northern Weightlifting is not responsible for the content or accuracy of any external website 

Also for international championships, see the appropriate World governing body site:-

The International Weightlifting Federation

The European Weightlifting Federation

The Commonwealth Weightlifting Federation

IWF Masters

European Masters Weightlifting