If you have any questions about hosting an event, please email us at board@bcweightlifting.ca

BCWA will do the following:

  • Provide access to required equipment
    • competition set
    • training weights, bars
    • platforms
    • electronics, printers, mic and speaker if required
    • scale
  • Take care of registrations, communicate session times, competition location to registrants
  • Prepare athlete cards, competition score sheet
  • Handle payment
  • Assist, if required, in setting up the session times and groupings
  • Provide contact information, if required, to various groups within the BCWA (notably, officials contact list, club contact list).
  • All communication with CWFHC regarding rankings, results, doping control

BCWA has some resources at your disposal, some alluded to above. They are:

  • Contact lists. We can provide you contact lists for officials, registered clubs etc for you to make arrangements
  • Job list documents for each session so you can fill in the blank and know you are not missing essential volunteers
Hosting an Event - BCWA Responsibilities

Host Club is responsible for

  • Securing a venue
  • Transporting all required equipment including but not limited to
    • Competition and training weights and bars
    • Competition and training platforms as needed
    • Competition management system (TVs, Monitors), unless using other system
  • Setting up and tearing down the competition. (Field of play, warm up area, any separation or flag and drape)
  • Provide a change rooms, anti-doping room (in a competition subject to doping control), weigh in room
  • Provide refreshments and snacks to Technical Officials and other volunteers
  • Securing awards: 1st, 2nd, 3rd place medals for each category, Best Overall lifter, Best team: 4+4 Best Team using the IWF point system, maximum 2 per weight class
  • Securing required personnel: TOs (including referees, speaker marshal, weigh in), loaders, set up and tear down crew.
  • Set up and tear down INCLUDES the electronic equipment, however a BCWA member knowledgeable in the electronics can assist by providing information on how to set certain things up
  • Arranging any “extra” such as merchandise booths etc if desired
Hosting an Event - Host Club Responsibilities

Financials:

  • The hosting grant for BCWA competitions are 80% payable post-competition.
  • All competition related costs (awards, venue rental, refreshments for officials etc) are the responsibility of the host club.
  • The host club may also include additional revenue streams, such as a concession or merchandise sale, of which the host retains 100% revenue.
  • BCWA has the right to set up merchandise sales, or to allow sponsors to set up merchandise sales.
  • On a case by case basis, for the BCWA Provincial Championships, BCWA may cover the costs involved in transporting required competition equipment (platforms, weights, competition management system)
Upcoming Events

BC Weightlifting Association hosts multiple events each year for athletes, coaches and officials. Please refer to the list below for more information on upcoming workshops, sanctioned competitions, club events and courses.

Oct
18 - 20
2024 Island Invitational
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Competition Results

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