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Year 10 student Shelby Wells breaks New Zealand Weightlifting Record!

Mana Media —

On Sunday 18th March year 10 students Shelby Wells and Miniah Summerell competed in Wellington at 41 Degrees Weightlifting competition

It was a successful day for the girls with both of them earning personal best lifts, adding about 20kg to their totals from their first competition only a month ago. 

In only her second weightlifting competition, Shelby brroke the NZ record for Under 15s Female Under 53kg clean and jerk with a 56kg lift. 

Former student and now staff member Sam Hansen also broke 3 NZ records for Snatch (70kg), Clean & Jerk (87kg), and Total (157kg) in the Junior Females Under 63kg division.

Well done girls.