# 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.
The WPC was established in 1986 and has affiliates in 46 countries.
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

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 | 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 | | Peterson | Doug Heat | Norm Shackelford | Joseph McCoy | Ed Riley | Mankamyer | Mesa | Eugene Van der Merwer | Brock | Gerrit Badenhorst | Mark Robinson |
| 1996 | 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 | | Ernesto Milian | Reno Karkuschke | Sakari Selkainaho | Angelo Berardinelli | Joseph Dougherty | Jesse Kellum | Gerhard Depner | Paul Urchick | Ano Turtainen | Andy Bolton | Garry Frank |
| 2001 | | | Toni Haaperanta | David Ramokadi | Gianfranco Manca | Andries Randall | Bronson Brown | Bernhard Schwab | Chris Muller | Michael Schrott | Uwe Frey | Andy Bolton |
| 2002 | | | Toni Haaperanta | Vladimir Morozovs | Martin Almqvist | Ron Palmer | Tatu Avola | Harald Selsam | Jani Ihalainen | Ano Turtiainen | Niko Laaperi | Peter Tregloan |
| 2003 | | Reno Karkuschke | | | Juha Jaakkola | Sean Baker | Tatu Avola | Benji Hill | Jani Ihalainen | Jason Patrick | Allan Meehan | Brent Mikesell |
| 2004 | | | Shant Sheklanian | Charles Morse | | | Mike Brown | Harald Selsam | Justin Graalfs | James Grandick | James Hoskinson | |
| 2005 | 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 | | | Suradzh Chebotar | Roman Murygin | Oleksandr Kutchr | Stanislav Pryakhin | Phillip Delmonti | Shawn Frankl | Rufat Agaev | Yevgen Yarymbash | AJ Roberts | Chris Clark |
| 2007 | | Aleksandr Onuchin | Yevgeny Bagin | Mikhail Speranskiy | Sergey Ayvazov | Maksim Tomchin | Andrey Sharapov | Andrey Ayvazov | Fatemi Mehdi | Mikhail Glazunov | Ano Turtiainen | Igor Nastynov |
| 2008 | | Alexander Onuchin | Reno Karkuschke | Mattias Schleinzer | Illya Kokorev | Chris Jenkins | Serigy Nalyeykin | Shawn Frankl | Sergey Starodubskiy | Jose Garcia | Greg Theriot | Andy Bolton |
| 2009 | | | | Gerry McNamara | Illya Kokorev | Lee Cutler | Chris Jenkins | Andrey Beleyaev | Craig Combes | Bratanov Vadim | Jim Nuttall | Ahmed Hassanin |
| 2010 | | Alizhan Eshchanov | | Vincent Eldin | Illya Kokorev | Dmitriy Khovanskiy | Steve Plonka | Andrey Beleyaev | Juha Someroja | Mark Griffiths | Oliver Williamson | Kari Kalliola |
| 2011 | 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.

### 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 | Asif Beliyev | Elnur Eminov | | Yevgeny Deckert | Sergey Konovalov | Alexey Merkulov | Rajat dalal | Sergey Starodubskiy | Rufat Agaev | Andriy Grin | Valeriy Snigirev |
| 2010 | | | Lawson Stratford | Jason Patch | Willie Albert | Greg Doucette | Jay Nera | | Cody Hyatt | Brian Connolly | |
| 2011 | | 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.

### 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 | 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.

### Men

| Year | 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 | | | Vincent Falzetta | Scott Govier | Angelo Fortino | Jonathan Chunn | TJ Kropp | | Julian McKerrow | Tatum Susberry | Tyrel Williams |
| 2018 | | | | | | | | | | | |
| 2019 | | | Won Hee Han | | | | Jason Berrington | Vachagan Baghdagyulyan | Julian McKerrow | Kane Francis | Jared Ray |
| 2020 | | Dylan Ludwick | | Nikhil Bhagat | | Jonathan Chunn | | Justin Perez | | | |
| 2021 | Dylan Ludwick | Treijon Johnson | | Nikhil Bhagat | Ryan Staelgraeve | Dillon Davis | Alex Issa | Jeff Oiler | Justin Perez | | |

### Women

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