” After over 6 hours of intense battles, major upsets, and long-time rivalries, the 2nd Australian Armwrestling Championships is now done and dusted for another year with new champions emerging from all states present.
We know everyone is hanging out for the videos but first things first, the results from the day. Congratulations to our new National Champions in their respective weight classes, Amir Singh, Grant Tolentino, Phil Rasmussen, Ryan Phillips, Sam Saffuri, Jamie Carle, Ryan Scott, Matt Bacon, Adam Laura, and our first female champion Kortney Olsen. And of course a big congratulations to our 2 overall class winners Matt Bacon and Jamie Carle you showed without a doubt that WA is a force in armwrestling right now and we look forward to seeing a big WA contingent in 2013. We thank all competitors from interstate for your time and dedication in travelling across the country, it’s the competitors that ultimately make the competition and WA/QLD/NSW all represented their states superbly though i think NSW takes the award for team camaraderie and sheer numbers 🙂
No competition of this size is possible without hard work and tireless efforts behind the scenes and on the day, so a huge thanks goes out to Ben Crowley and his team at Bulk Nutrients for organising such fantastic prize bags for all competitors and winners and flying up from Tasmania to attend and present awards at the competition. Amy Kauler for not only scoring on the day but for all graphic design, branding, and venue preparations you did an amazing job of creating such a professional looking event. Professor Ron Laura for generously giving up his time to travel down from Sydney to MC the entire event. Brendan Downes for his fantastic and tireless efforts as Head Referee which is a stressful job even at the best of times, and his lovely wife Kirsty who organised the canteen and served everyone refreshments throughout the day while juggling 3 kids. And last but certainly not least Lee Dobson for your assistance in scoring and preparing the draws, Ryan Phillips for getting up at 5am to help setup the venue with us and take registrations while attempting to drop weight for competition, and Jesse Johnson for his 10 months of hard work in making what is easily the best competition armwrestling table in the Southern hemisphere! “
