WE ARE PROUD TO BE STRONG!

Team CrossFit Basel was represented by seven athletes at the Swiss Single Lift Championship 2019 (SDFPF) in Basel. They won eleven gold medals, three silver and one bronze medal. Nick Charnley got two new swiss records in the Masters 2 category, Bizi-Dave Neuenschwander beat the old Deadlift swiss record by 10kg in the 82.5kg Junior category with a big 250kg attempt. Tatjana Abramides got two new swiss records in the Senior -63kg category.

Headcoach Ramon Gysin took Best Lifter across all age and weight categories in the Squat and Deadlift.

Congratulations, well done!

Our lifting Team currently holds 106 swiss, 12 european and 10 world records!

Find detailed explanation about the sport of Powerlifting as well as past reports on the bottom of the post.

Results Team CrossFit Basel:

Nick Charnley, M2/-67.5kg:

Backsquat: 115kg (Swiss Record), 1st place age and weight category
Deadlift: 140kg (Swiss Record), 1st place age and weight category

Leonardo Bucci, SR/-100kg:

Backsquat: 215kg, 1st place age and weight category

Ramon Gysin, SR/-110kg:

Backsquat: 260kg, Best lifter across all weight and age categories
Bench Press: 145kg, 2nd place age and weight category
Deadlift: 280kg, Best lifter across all weight and age categories

Tatjana Abramides SR/-63kg:

Backsquat: 102.5kg, 1st place age and weight category
Bench Press: 67.5kg (Swiss Record), 1st place age and weight category, second best lifter across all age and weight categories
Deadlift: 135.5kg (Swiss Record), 1st place age and weight category

Samuel Egli, SR/-90kg:

Backsquat: 175kg, 3rd place age and weight category
Bench Press: 102.5kg, 3rd place age, 4th place weight category
Deadlift: 200kg, 4th place age and weight category

David Neuenschwander, JR/-82.5kg:

Backsquat: 187.5kg, 1st place age and weight category
Bench Press: 135kg, 1st place age, 2nd place weight category
Deadlift: 250kg, (Swiss Record) 1st place age and weight category

Christian Schnider, SR/-82.5kg:

Backsquat: 180kg, 1st place age, 2nd place weight category
Deadlift: 220kg, 1st place age, 2nd place weight category

Headcoach Ramon Gysin (Host, Secretaire SDFPF):

„I am very happy with the performance of our team, they did a great job. Plenty of personal bests and swiss records being achieved. Thanks to Marco who was in charge of the event, thanks to all volunteers for their hard work, thanks to the judges and my fellow SDFPF comitee, congrats to all fellow athletes, we spent a great day of lifting together.

The youngest athlete was 15, the oldest 79. Everybody can compete in Powerlifting. Strength Training is important for Health and the Sport of Powerlifting is all about showing control over the loads you move, the rules are very strict. Try it! Lifting weights is not dangerous, not doing anything IS dangerous.

“No man has the right to be an amateur in the matter of physical training. It is a shame for a man to grow old without seeing the beauty and strength of which his body is capable.”—Socrates

“Don’t cheat the world of your contribution. Give it what you’ve got.” —Steven Pressfield

Body, mind and soul, all needs to be in balance. To function, the body needs some sort of resistance training, otherwise muscles will become weak, you are more vulnerable. A fit body gives me more options. And a fit body is necessary for a fit mind. So I strongly believe in being fit to be able to contribute more AND LONGER. Happy lifting!“

Find the best lifts of Team CrossFit Basel on vimeo.

Are you interested in attending one of Ramon Gysin’s Powerlifting Seminars or Strongman Workshops? Here are your next chances:

April 19th – CrossFit Basel – Strong(wo)man Athletes Workshop

April 28th – CrossFit Basel – Strong(wo)man Athletes Workshop

Want to host a workshop: Get back to him via rg@crossfitbasel.ch.

What is Powerlifting?

Every athlete has three attempts in the following three exercises (Powerlifts). The total of the best lifts count towards the total.

Backsquat:

275.5kg Backsquat 2 – Ramon Gysin @99.3kg – Powerlifting WC (WDFPF) 2014 Chisinau Moldova from CrossFit Basel on Vimeo.

Bench Press:

170kg Bench Press 3 – Ramon Gysin @99.3kg – Powerlifting WC (WDFPF) 2014 Chisinau Moldova from CrossFit Basel on Vimeo.

Deadlift:

WR 207.5kg Deadlift 3 – Nora Jäggi @74.3kg – Powerlifting WC (WDFPF) 2014 Chisinau Moldova from CrossFit Basel on Vimeo.

You can also compete in Single Lift Competitions where you choose to compete in one, two, or all three lifts, but get ranked separately in each lift.

There are raw competitions where only a belt is allowed and there are equipped competitions (single ply => one layer of suits/equipment and multi ply => several layers of equipment) where athletes wear assistant suits, briefs and knee wraps to be able to lift much more weight.

Team CrossFit Basel is competing raw.

What is the WDFPF?

The World Drug Free Powerlifting Federation was established to give drug free lifters a home as in most strength sports there is no or little drug testing. In fact there is no other sports federation (including ALL olympic sports!) in the world today that knows such severe punishment like the WDFPF. If an athlete is tested positive he or she will be banned FOR LIFE and all past results will be erased.

The WDFPF is also an inclusive federation, all athletes, no matter what age, are competing at the same venue at the same competition together, ranked in their respective weight and age classes.

Reports from the past:

2019:

Swiss Powerlifting Championships

2018:

Swiss Powerlifting Championships

Swiss Single Lift Championships

European Championships

2017:

World Championships

European Championships

2016:

Swiss Single Lift Championships

Swiss Powerlifting Championships

2015:

Swiss Championships

World Single Lift Championships

World Championships

BZ Basel European Championship 2015

2014:

Swiss Championships

European Championships

World Single Lift Championships

World Championships

Interview mit Ramon Gysin über Krafttraining

2013:

Swiss Championships

2012:

Swiss Championships

European Single Lift Championships

2011:

2010:

2009:

Open Workout 19.3

With 19.3 we got a new movement in the open. The STRICT handstand push up.

Did you manage to do one or even more?

Workout 19.3

For time:
200-ft. dumbbell overhead lunge
50 dumbbell box step-ups
50 strict handstand push-ups
200-ft. handstand walk

50-lb. dumbbell, 24-in. box
Time cap: 10 minutes

All details here.

This hard WOD wasn’t easy to manage. Even the „scaled“ version included strict HSPU and 50 DB box step ups. But when the hair is still on point and you can still smile – the world is all right!

After this repeater the overall CFBS-Top-Ten-leaderboard looks like this:

The Top 3 Men for 19.3 at CrossFit Basel and CF Basel Downtown are:

The Top 3 Women for 19.3 at CrossFit Basel and CF Basel Downtown are:

This week the extra points for Team spirit go to Team Fight Clap! because they stayed till late at night and vocally supported their athletes. So the updated Leaderboard of the internal Open competition looks like this: