Interviews

Eva Buxbom is an inspirational woman whose passion and dedication to the sport shines from within and is evident by her recent performance at the European Open, Junior and Sub Junior Powerlifting Championships in Pilsen this August.  Her face lights up when she talks about powerlifting it´s importance in her life.   Eva, now aged 53, started…

Johnny Wilklund has been ‘in the family’ as he puts it, for 50 years and although now retired from lifting he´s still involved in the sport and a familiar face, and voice, as a speaker.   

An accomplished lifter in the -75 kg class, he stopped lifting in 1980 due to an injury, becoming a Cat 2 referee a year later and a Cat 1 referee in 1993.  He…

On his career as a powerlifter …

I got into powerlifting about 20 years ago. When I was young, I played football, rugby, tennis, badminton and squash. I also did karate for four years and a lot of running. I was quite good, I got third in the mile in the Highland Games. But all that went out the window when I had a serious accident in 1980. I was…

During the recent Powerlifting Championships in Pilsen, Czech Republic, I had the absolute privilege to speak to 22-year-old Zuzanna Kula of Poland.  This is the girl who broke three world powerlifting records in one single afternoon of Junior Powerlifting and who still doesn´t quite understand what all the fuss is about.   In this tiny frame…