APL Expands Armlifting in Russia: Bringing More to the Party

CoC-3 ’15 Nikolay Pleshakov won the CoC Silver Bullet with an impressive time of 44.9 seconds, edging second-place finisher Alexander Faustov by less than half a second. IronMind® | Courtesy of APL CoC-3 ’15 Nikolay Pleshakov won the CoC Silver Bullet with an impressive time of 44.9 seconds at the 2017 APL Russian Armlifting Championships, edging second-place finisher Alexander Faustov by less than half a second. IronMind® | Courtesy of APL

“Step-by-step, APL is going from fun to a professional sport and we are trying to create the highest-level competition ever,” Dmitriy Suhovarov told IronMind.


Speaking of the recent Russian Armlifting Championships, Suhovarov said, “This time, we provided a few new and important things: first, we are starting to provide a show between the competition rounds: we organized a pole-dance, cheerleading, etc. Second, to create more interest for the sportsmen, we are starting to pay cash money in prizes. We hope this will be a next-level of our sport’s popularization.

“In near future, we will have a lot of fitness expos, where we will introduce armlifting and IronMind grip tools, and of course we have started preparing the World Armlifting Championships and are looking forward to see all you here,” said Suhovarov.

Now, one week later, Suhovarov reported, “Ohhhh…I'm coming back after 3 days at a fitness expo. We had a great show: at our booth, we consolidated armlifting, sports nutrition and a pole-dance show.

“So, in these days, over few thousand people have tried these IronMind grip tools: Rolling Thunder, Hub, Twist Yo’ Wrist and of course, the CoC Silver Bullet,” said Suhovarov.

Suhovarov, incidentally, is not merely an armchair promoter with no active involvement in grip strength sports themselves: he is the current world record holder on the prestigious Captains of Crush (CoC) Silver Bullet Hold.

Armlifting began in 2010 when a Russian colleague approached IronMind, requesting permission to hold grip contests under the armlifting banner, using the Rolling Thunder. And while the Rolling Thunder remains the sport’s signature event, the Captains of Crush (CoC) Silver Bullet Hold and the Apollon’s Axle double overhand deadlift have been added to the program.

Armlifting began with a single event—the Rolling Thunder—which remains the foundation of the sport, and it has expanded to also include the Captains of Crush (CoC) Silver Bullet and the Apollon’s Axle Double overhand deadlift, which are staples of the grip strength world,

Here are the top three from the 2016 Russian Armlifting Championships, courtesy of Dmitriy Suhovarov, APL.
 
Women's Rolling Thunder 60-kg weight class
1st place: Solovyova Svetlana  / Saint-Petersburg - 45kg
2nd place: Ershova Natalya    / Saint-Petersburg - 43kg
3nd place: Bochkareva Anna    / Simferopol - 35,5kg

Women's Rolling Thunder 80-kg weight class
1st place: Ivanova Julia   / Saint-Petersburg - 50,5kg
2nd place: Osna Margarita   / Vladivostok - 45kg
3nd place: Korotkova Juliana    / Saint-Petersburg - 40kg

Men's Rolling Thunder 90-kg weight class
1st place: Kadyrov Salavat    / Tatarstan - 105kg
2nd place: Fillimonov Alexander    / Tolliatti - 95kg
3nd place: Kiselev Igor    / Voronezh  - 90,5kg

Men's Rolling Thunder 100-kg weight class
1st place: Malikov Alexander    / Saint-Petersburg - 85kg
2nd place: Antakov German      / Saint-Petersburg - 85 kg
3nd place: Efimovskiy Vladislav    / Saint-Petersburg - 75 kg

Men's Rolling Thunder 100+kg weight class
1st place: Bogotopov Sergey     / Saint-Petersburg - 90 kg
2nd place: Asinovskiy Alexader    / Moscow - 85kg
3nd place: Faustov Alexander    / Novomoskovsk - 73kg

Women's Apollon's Axle 60-kg weight class
1st place: Solovyova Svetlana    / Saint-Petersburg - 92,5 kg
2nd place: Ershova Natalya      / Saint-Petersburg - 85 kg
3nd place: Bochkareva Anna     / Saint-Petersburg - 70 kg

Women's Apollons Axle 80-kg weight class
1st place: Ivanova Julia    / Saint-Petersburg -95 kg
2nd place: Osna Margarita   / Vladivostok  -90kg
3nd place: Korotkova Juliana    / Saint-Petersburg -80kg

Men's Apollons Axle 90-kg weight class
1st place: Kiselev Igor   / Voronezh - 170 kg
2nd place: Vorobyov Ivan   / Tver - 170 kg
3nd place: Neverov Evgeniy   / Kronshtadt - 140 kg

Men's Apollon's Axle 100-kg weight class
1st place: Malikov Alexander    / Saint-Petersburg - 155 kg
2nd place: Antakov German   / Saint-Petersburg - 140kg
3nd place: Efimovskiy Vladislav    / Saint-Petersburg -130kg

Men's Apollons Axle 100+kg weight class
1st place: Bogotopov Sergey   / Saint-Petersburg - 185 kg
2nd place: Asinovskiy Alexander   / Moscow - 180 kg
3nd place: Polyakov Andrey    / Orel - 175 kg

Men's CoC No. 3 Silver Bullet Hold
1st place: Pleshakov Nikolay    / Saint-Petersburg - 44,9sec
2nd place: Faustov Alexander   / Novomoscovsk - 44.5sec
3nd place: Asinovskiy Alexander   / Moscow - 33,6 sec

Women's CoC No. 1 Silver Bullet Hold
1st place: Osna Margarita    / Vladivostok  - 22 sec
2nd place: Solovyova Svetlana   / Saint-Petersburg - no result
3nd place: Erchova Natalya   / Saint-Petersburg - no result
4nd place: Ivanova Julia  / Saint-Petersburg - no result
 


CoC-3 ’13 Aleksander Askinowski was third on the CoC Silver Bullet, posting a very respectable 33.6 seconds. IronMind® | Courtesy of APL

 

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