2016 Asia-Oceania Championsips

Powerlifting Asia and the Oceania Powerlifting Federation bring their joint 2016 Championships to Christchurch, starting with equipped lifters on Monday 5th December, and building to the heavyweight open men (U74, U83, U93, U105, U120 and O120) on Saturday 10th December.

There'll be lifters from NZ, Australia, across the Pacific (Nauru, Samoa, Niue, New Caledonia, Kiribati), as well as Japan, Taiwan, Singapore, Kazakhstan, Mongolia, India, Hong Kong, Pakistan.

In the open classic Joe Whittaker, Oliva Kirisome and Jezza Uepa have all nominated over 900kg totals - 1000+ for Jezza.  In open equipped, there's also a lot of nominations over 800kg.

See the timetable here

The full list of nominations is here

The livestream is here

The running score-sheet is here