Defending champion Roxroy Campbell is on the hunt for his third consecutive title on the extremely anticipated GraceKennedy Cash Providers NPAJ Deadlift Solely 2024 Sequence finale, set to happen this Sunday, October 6, at 3:00 p.m. on the Match Farm Grounds.
Campbell, who claimed the Deadlift Solely crown in each 2022 and 2023, enters the occasion because the clear favourite. His current victory within the Squat Solely 2024 competitors earlier this 12 months has additional solidified his standing as the person to beat, and he’s decided to increase his dominance on this occasion.
Nevertheless, Campbell’s path to a 3rd straight title shouldn’t be with out its challenges. The thrill round this 12 months’s competitors is amplified by the return of former champion Shaun Simpson, who’s making a comeback after a two-year break from aggressive powerlifting. Simpson, who final received the Squat Championship in 2022 earlier than stepping away from the game, brings added intrigue to the occasion. His return has generated vital buzz, as followers and fellow athletes alike are desirous to see if Simpson can reclaim his earlier kind and mount a critical problem to Campbell’s reign.
Additionally becoming a member of the extraordinary competitors is 2024 Bench Press Solely champion Algreg Sappleton, who leads a powerful subject of challengers. Sappleton’s current success has demonstrated his power and potential to disrupt Campbell’s streak. Different notable contenders within the males’s class embrace Alexander Carrington, Bruce Higgins, and Nathan Dawkins, the defending 2023 Class Champion within the -83kg weight class. With such a stacked roster, the competitors guarantees to be fierce, and Campbell will have to be at his finest to safe the title.
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On the ladies’s aspect, the absence of final 12 months’s champion, Latasha Jackson, who is not going to be taking part this 12 months, leaves the title large open. Among the many high contenders is Ayana Duhaney, the 2022 Deadlift Solely champion, who’s seeking to reclaim her crown after ending as runner-up to Jackson final 12 months. Duhaney is in peak kind, having already received the Squat Solely 2024 competitors earlier within the season, making her one of many favorites to take the title.
One other critical challenger within the girls’s competitors is Tashian Wallace, who’s searching for redemption after being disqualified from final 12 months’s Deadlift occasion. Wallace has already bounced again in an enormous method by capturing the Bench Press Solely 2024 title earlier this 12 months. She will probably be desirous to proceed her profitable streak and safe the Deadlift Solely title, which might mark two main wins in a single season.
This 12 months’s Deadlift Solely occasion additionally sees the debut of six new athletes, three males and three girls, who just lately joined the Nationwide Powerlifting Affiliation of Jamaica (NPAJ). Among the many newcomers are Jean Claude Dunn, Okerie Morgan, and Jerome Davis on the boys’s aspect, and Lesmar Murray, Priscilla McClure, and Rhori Miller on the ladies’s aspect. These recent faces carry an thrilling new power to the competitors as they give the impression of being to make their mark on one of many greatest levels in Jamaican powerlifting.
With 47 athletes—30 males and 17 girls—competing throughout a number of weight lessons, the Deadlift Solely 2024 occasion guarantees to be one of the thrilling finales in current reminiscence. Followers can anticipate a gripping contest as seasoned champions, returning veterans, and hungry newcomers all battle for the celebrated titles. As the ultimate occasion of the 2024 GraceKennedy Cash Providers NPAJ Sequence, this Sunday’s competitors will decide not solely the load class winners but additionally the general female and male champions of the season.
Males’s 2024 Line-Up (30)
- Males’s 74kg Weight Class: Corey Taylor, Mikhail Russell, Raun Earle, Robert Williams
- Males’s 83kg Weight Class: Alexander Carrington, Gary Adamson, Giovanni Land, Jean-Claude Dunn (New), Nathan Dawkins (2023 Class Champion), O’Jhai Bailey, Okerie Morgan (New), Shaun Jennings
- Males’s 93kg Weight Class: Daniel Palmer, Mervin Barrett, Roxroy Campbell (2022, 2023 Class Champion), Rushane Johnson
- Males’s 105kg Weight Class: Crosby Jervis, Gregory Brown, Jure Inexperienced, Kamau-Akeele Brown, Matthew Corridor, Tafari Simpson
- Males’s 120kg Weight Class: Algreg Sappleton, Darren Thomas, Jerome Davis (New), Johnwayne Goulbourne (2023 Class Champion), Omar Campbell
- Males’s 120+kg Weight Class: Bruce Higgins, Shaun Simpson
Girls’s 2024 Line-Up (17)
- Girls’s 63kg Weight Class: Anna-kay Inexperienced, Dian Palmer (2023 Class Champion), Lesmar Murray (New)
- Girls’s 69kg Weight Class: Cheyenne Campbell, Priscilla McClure (New), Shaniqueka Allman, Shrona Scott (2023 Class Champion), Suzette McPhail
- Girls’s 76kg Weight Class: Fiona Binns, Nadesha Thompson
- Girls’s 84kg Weight Class: Anna-Kay Brown, Ayana Duhaney, Rosalee Atkinson-Reece, Tzari Saunders
- Girls’s 84+kg Weight Class: Lisa Hanson, Rhori Miller (New), Tashian Wallace
