129 Athletics

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129 Athletics has been closed for some time. If you are interested in lifting in an environment with serious powerlifters, including Special Olympics lifters, we are at Power Partners connected to Get Fit on East Broadway in Maryville.

Chip Hultquist

Looking forward to more Power Partners events this summer. Train hard and stay safe!!

Big day of lifting at the 129 Athletics Power Partners Competition today. Special Olympics athletes from 129 Athletics and Memphis battled for placing in the squat, benchpress and deadlift. Special thanks to all that traveled long distances (especially the Krebs Team from Memphis) and helped make the competition a success as Power Partners, coaches, referees, spotter/loaders and scoring. Thank you Clint Poore for a great job announcing and running the score table, Angela and Chris Miles for helping with scoring and spotting/loading, Robert and Hunter Ogle for spotting/loading and lifting as a partner (Hunter). Matt Blankenship, Ashlei Hand and Derik Hultquist for refereeing. Also thank you Kent Davis, Holland Millsaps and John Evans for doing such a great job coaching and lifting as a partner for Brad Davis (Holland). And especially thanks to partners Luke Summerall and Hunter Ogle for stepping in to partner with Josh Evans and Noah Myers respectively. It was so much fun lifting as a partner to Zach McMurray (first picture). Zach never gives up. What a day!

It was great to have Chad and Amy Richards from the Ogre Compound in Nashville visit us this morning. Thanks for training with us!!

It was great to watch the Special Olympics lifters do so well at the International Powerlifting Federations 2019 Open World Championship in Dubai, UAE this week. The lifters from USA/Georgia that also lifted with us this past summer at 129 Athletics all won gold medals in their weight classes. The pictures are from our meet and the IPF Worlds this weekend. Proud to know them!!

A little late in posting but very proud of 129 Athletic members and Power Partners who lifted at the USAPL Kentucky State Meet recently in Somerset. Brad Davis has a PR in Squat and Benchpress while Power Panther Holland Millsaps had PRs in Squat and Deadlift. Congratulations Brad and Holland!

Congratulations to 129 Athletics member Holland Milsaps for his third place win at the GreenHills Highland Games in Virginia!

Congratulations to Matt Blankenship, founder of 129 Athletics for winning gold in the sn**ch, clean and Jerk and total today in 81 kilo class at the International Weightlifting Associations Masters World Championship in Montreal, Canada. Matt worked incredibly hard in less than ideal conditions (that means training in 90 degree plus temperatures) to emerge today as the best in the World in his division. Proud to know you Matt!!

Great day of “smoking hot” lifting yesterday at the 129 Athletics Special Olympics Power Partners Powerlifting Competition. Fantastic lifting by all of the Special Olympics lifters and their Power Partners from 129 Athletics, Knoxville and Sparta, TN, South Georgia and Indiana. Big thanks to Matt and Ava Blankenship, Robert Williams and Michael Pacifico for all the preparation work they did for the competition and thanks to Robert, Michael, Ryan and Deanna Dennis for being Power Partners for athletes from Georgia and Indiana. Also, thanks to Storm Owens and Holland Milsaps for partnering with our 129 Athletics and GATE athletes. Thank you to our referees, Darron Rogers, Charlie Conners and Bryan and Wendy Gardner and the expediting table team of Becky Newby, Emily Conners and special thanks to Tanya McNamara and her A+ spotting and loading team from Maryville College. Big thanks to Gate Powerlifting coach Kent Davis and Gloria Davis and Steve McMurray for all your work to make this event a huge success!! Photo below shows Louis Maxwell (athlete partnered with Robert Williams) with a huge deadlift, Ryan Dennis (L) Power Partner with Jermaine Bianchi, Deanna Dennis (L) Power Partner with Patrice Lockhart and Michael Pacifico (L) Power Partner with Brendon Tabor.

See incredible feats of Strength tomorrow at the 129 Athletics Special Olympics Power Partners Competition at 129 Athletics (197 Rosevelt Dr.). Expect Louis Maxwell and his Power Partner Robert Williams to include a deadlift of over 700 lbs in their combined total. The weight starts moving at 9:00 AM.