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Youth weightlifting tournament lands down in Maidstone
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01/03/2024
With athletes as young as 10 coming from as far as Manchester, lots of medals and national titles were up for the taking.
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A three-day weightlifting bonanza took place in Maidstone this weekend, as the leisure
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centre saw hundreds of lifters of all different ages and backgrounds step up to the bar.
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Crowds of family members and friends sat in the stands as celebrity athletes like Emily
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Still, a BBC Gladiator contestant with tens of thousands of followers, displayed her strength.
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The biggest lift came from Myron Madden, the newly crowned male under-23s English age group
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champion as he hoisted a hefty 182kg clean and jerk to win gold.
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Behind me you can see the platforms where hundreds of lifters came from across the country
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to show what they're made of.
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Today boys and girls as young as six are stepping up to show their strength.
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Yes, you heard that right.
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Kids as young as six competed in the tournament on Sunday.
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Matt Vine, a former Great British Olympian and current coach at the Maidstone Weightlifting
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Club, spoke about the popularity of the tournament.
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We've run our own small competitions, but to bring a national championship to here and
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have 200 lifters over three days, and from all over the country, it's been enormous.
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I think we've definitely seen one or two people who in a few years' time will be actually
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representing Great Britain.
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With the next Olympics just under six months away, it may be too soon for some to compete,
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but some future stars are certainly on their way.
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One of them being Maidstone's very own Dylan Botton.
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His lifting today earned him gold in the under-10s category.
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Well, it started when I just came in here and I saw they were doing it and I wanted
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to take part.
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And then over the last few weeks, I went for a couple of weeks and I found out I really
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liked it.
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And then I've been doing it for years now.
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And I'm hoping to carry on that journey all the way to the Olympics.
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As the events gains attention from all corners of the country, Councillor David Nagy hopes
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that the events will return to Maidstone.
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We have this in Maidstone over the weekend, and then Monday night, tomorrow night, when
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we could be in the quarter-finals of the FA Cup, it couldn't be any better.
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Maybe every other year they come down to Maidstone, because it isn't the place to be.
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As the British Weightlifting Association travels far and wide on its tours, Maidstone's medalists
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made their mark.
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But where next for these future stars?
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James Hill, KMTV.
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