World Powerlifting Congress

The World Powerlifting Congress (WPC) is a powerlifting federation hosting meets around the world. The federation hosts competitions which allow multi-ply equipment, but hosted a Raw world championship for the first time in 2009.

WPC logo

The WPC was established in 1986 and has affiliates in 46 countries.^[1]

In 1999, the WPC started to host drug tested competitions under the AWPC (Amateur World Powerlifting Congress) banner, with both raw and equipped contests. The competitive season comes to an end each year in November, as qualified lifters from different countries compete in the annual WPC World Championships.

The United States affiliate for the WPC is the American Powerlifting Federation (APF). The APF has several series of qualifying competitions that allow athletes to advance from the local/state level, to the national level, and then finally to the international level, the WPC/AWPC. The Canadian affiliate is WPC Canadian Powerlifting.

As of 2013, the British affiliate is known as the BPU (British Powerlifting Union), following the BPC (British Powerlifting Committee) losing the WPC license.

WPC World Championships

Men^[2]

WPC world champions

Year	52 kilograms	56 kilograms	60 kilograms	67.5 kilograms	75 kilograms	82.5 kilograms	90 kilograms	100 kilograms	110 kilograms	125 kilograms	140 kilograms	Open
1987[3]	Mike Nelson	Ernesto Milian	John Carr	Ed Morishima	Ausby Alexander	Michael Phillips	Buddy Duke	Ed Coan	Willie Bell	Bill Nichols
1988											Gerrit Badenhorst
1989											Gerrit Badenhorst
1990[4]		Peterson	Doug Heat	Norm Shackelford	Joseph McCoy	Ed Riley	Mankamyer	Mesa	Eugene Van der Merwer	Brock	Gerrit Badenhorst	Mark Robinson
1996[5]	Gary Mellor	Steven Grey	Doug Heath	Andre Fourie	Neville Primich	Tom Rutigliano	Jesse Kellum	Gerhard Depner	Justin Koenig	Lee Marshall	Gerhard Holleitner	Peter Tregloan
2000[6]		Ernesto Milian	Reno Karkuschke	Sakari Selkainaho	Angelo Berardinelli	Joseph Dougherty	Jesse Kellum	Gerhard Depner	Paul Urchick	Ano Turtainen	Andy Bolton	Garry Frank
2001[7]			Toni Haaperanta	David Ramokadi	Gianfranco Manca	Andries Randall	Bronson Brown	Bernhard Schwab	Chris Muller	Michael Schrott	Uwe Frey	Andy Bolton
2002[8]			Toni Haaperanta	Vladimir Morozovs	Martin Almqvist	Ron Palmer	Tatu Avola	Harald Selsam	Jani Ihalainen	Ano Turtiainen	Niko Laaperi	Peter Tregloan
2003[9]		Reno Karkuschke			Juha Jaakkola	Sean Baker	Tatu Avola	Benji Hill	Jani Ihalainen	Jason Patrick	Allan Meehan	Brent Mikesell
2004[10]			Shant Sheklanian	Charles Morse			Mike Brown	Harald Selsam	Justin Graalfs	James Grandick	James Hoskinson
2005[11]	Igor Arlamyev	Oleg Artemyev	Otis Brown	Illya Kokorev	Vasily Tevetkov	Andrey Sharapov	Alexander Matveev	Mika Virtanen	Maxim Mikhaylov	Christian Poppe	Artur Stepanov	Tibor Meszaros
2006[12]			Suradzh Chebotar	Roman Murygin	Oleksandr Kutchr	Stanislav Pryakhin	Phillip Delmonti	Shawn Frankl	Rufat Agaev	Yevgen Yarymbash	AJ Roberts	Chris Clark
2007[13]		Aleksandr Onuchin	Yevgeny Bagin	Mikhail Speranskiy	Sergey Ayvazov	Maksim Tomchin	Andrey Sharapov	Andrey Ayvazov	Fatemi Mehdi	Mikhail Glazunov	Ano Turtiainen	Igor Nastynov
2008[14]		Alexander Onuchin	Reno Karkuschke	Mattias Schleinzer	Illya Kokorev	Chris Jenkins	Serigy Nalyeykin	Shawn Frankl	Sergey Starodubskiy	Jose Garcia	Greg Theriot	Andy Bolton
2009[15]				Gerry McNamara	Illya Kokorev	Lee Cutler	Chris Jenkins	Andrey Beleyaev	Craig Combes	Bratanov Vadim	Jim Nuttall	Ahmed Hassanin
2010[16]		Alizhan Eshchanov		Vincent Eldin	Illya Kokorev	Dmitriy Khovanskiy	Steve Plonka	Andrey Beleyaev	Juha Someroja	Mark Griffiths	Oliver Williamson	Kari Kalliola
2011[17]	Mihail Sabarovs		Oleg Ivanyukov	Marc Tejero	Gordon Wood	Vasiliy Tsvetkov	Maksim Piskunov	Andrey Belyeav	Juha Someroja	Craig Coombes	Luis Batista	Philippe Crets

WPC Raw World Championships

The WPC began hosting the WPC Raw World Championships (without the use of single/multi-ply gear) in 2009. The only equipment allowed is a weight belt and wrist wraps.^[2]

Men

Year	56 kilograms	60 kilograms	67.5 kilograms	75 kilograms	82.5 kilograms	90 kilograms	100 kilograms	110 kilograms	125 kilograms	140 kilograms	Open
2009[18]	Asif Beliyev	Elnur Eminov		Yevgeny Deckert	Sergey Konovalov	Alexey Merkulov	Rajat dalal	Sergey Starodubskiy	Rufat Agaev	Andriy Grin	Valeriy Snigirev
2010[19]			Lawson Stratford	Jason Patch	Willie Albert	Greg Doucette	Jay Nera		Cody Hyatt	Brian Connolly
2011[20]		Georgiy Mikelashvili		Kevin Stuart	Andriy Ivzhenko	Aleksey Bazhenov	Viktor Galaguz	Sergey Starodubskiy	Michael Schrott	Konstantin Konstantinovs	Adrian Tullo

AWPC Raw World Championships

The WPC began hosting the drug tested AWPC Raw World Championships (without the use of single/multi-ply gear) in 2009. The only equipment allowed is a weight belt and wrist wraps. Unlike the WPC, the event is drug tested.^[21]

Men

Year	52 kilograms	56 kilograms	60 kilograms	67.5 kilograms	75 kilograms	82.5 kilograms	90 kilograms	100 kilograms	110 kilograms	125 kilograms	140 kilograms
2009[21]	Nikita Serenko	Oleg Artemyev	Elmir Tarverdiyev	Leonid Telipaylo	Rodion Puchkoviskiy	Aleksey Kokukhin	Nikolay Zhukov	Vadym Lozhechkin	Aleksandr Zaytsev	Sergey Lukyanov	Oleg Vasyuchenko

AWPC Classic Raw World Championships

The WPC began hosting the drug tested AWPC Classic Raw World Championships (without the use of single/multi-ply gear) wherein the only equipment allowed is a weight belt, knee wraps/knee sleeves and wrist wraps. Unlike the WPC, the event is drug tested.^[21]

Men

Year	52 kilograms	56 kilograms	60 kilograms	67.5 kilograms	75 kilograms	82.5 kilograms	90 kilograms	100 kilograms	110 kilograms	125 kilograms	140 kilograms	140 Kilograms +
2017[22]				Vincent Falzetta	Scott Govier	Angelo Fortino	Jonathan Chunn	TJ Kropp		Julian McKerrow	Tatum Susberry	Tyrel Williams
2018
2019[23]				Won Hee Han				Jason Berrington	Vachagan Baghdagyulyan	Julian McKerrow	Kane Francis	Jared Ray
2020[24]			Dylan Ludwick		Nikhil Bhagat		Jonathan Chunn		Justin Perez
2021[25]		Dylan Ludwick	Treijon Johnson		Nikhil Bhagat	Ryan Staelgraeve	Dillon Davis	Alex Issa	Jeff Oiler	Justin Perez

Women

Year	44 Kilograms	48 Kilograms	52 kilograms	56 kilograms	60 kilograms	67.5 kilograms	75 kilograms	82.5 kilograms	90 kilograms	90 kilograms +
2017[22]			Briana  Maison	Lindsay Crosby		Nikki Merson	Darci Molina	Tyi Richards	Samantha Cichy	Tera Kinnane
2018
2019[23]				Gillian Tedeschi			Nicola Burroughs	Robyn Herrick	Viv Dickinson	Shalynn McCauley
2020[24]		Brittani Durbin				Dyan Donofrio				Katie Murawski
2021[25]					Erica Corona	Robin Miller		Brooke Minuth