Dave is our mid-40s M1 74 kg alumnus who makes a good habit of troubling the podium at Europeans and Worlds and collecting squat golds on a regular basis. However, the top step at international level has always eluded him with five silvers and a bronze…until now! In the icy hallows of Oulu, northern Finland, in mid-Feb where temperatures were a balmy -20 °C, Dave finally got the gold at European Masters by a margin of nearly 50 kg and extended his European squat record by 0.5 kg to 263.5 kg to boot.
His bogey lift of bench was a sub-par 132.5 kg that was enough for 4 th , but a 262.5 kg deadlift was respectable and secured silver. He also wasn’t too far away from the podium for M1 men overall coming 5 th out of 55 lifters. A couple of weeks of recovery training before 14 weeks of head down, butt up, to do some damage at British Masters in June which will be in Edinburgh!
