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Technical Rules book of the International Powerlifting Federation

7. A lifter shall be nominated in his normal bodyweight category. However, each lifter will have the option of changing categories up or down from that in which he was originally nominated on the final team nomination form. If the lifter wishes to exercise this option, he must present himself to the Chief Referee at the weigh in room ten minutes before the commencement of the weigh in for his final choice of bodyweight category. If he wishes to move up, the lifter must also report to the Chief Referee of his originally nominated lower category, ten minutes before the commencement of the weigh in for that category in order to be excused. If a lifter changes categories and the lot draw has already been carried out, then the lifter shall be placed at the top of the draw. If the lifter’s new bodyweight category is to be split into alternating groups because of the number of competitors, then unless he can produce irrefutable evidence of a total made in the new category during the preceding twelve months at a National or International level, he will automatically be placed in the first group to lift. It is also courteous to let the Chief Referee from ones originally nominated class know of the move, he may not have received the information or to have been in the vicinity of the venue at the time.

Example (a) – A lifter nominated at 90 kg wishes to lift at 82.5 kg. He must present himself to the Chief Referee of the 82.5 kg category ten minutes before the commencement of the weigh in for that category.

Example (” srcset=”/uploads/emoticons/smile@2x.png 2x” width=”20″ height=”20″> – A lifter nominated at 90kg wishes to lift at 100kg. He must report to the Chief Referee of the 90kg category ten minutes before the weigh in commences and state that he wishes to move up into the 100kg category and therefore does not wish to weigh in. He must then also present himself to the Chief Referee of the 100kg category ten minutes before the commencement of the weigh in for that category. It is the responsibility of the lifter to know the bodyweight category for which he was originally nominated. A claim that an error had been made on the final nomination form will not be accepted. In the case where groups are formed e.g. A – B and or C in a particular weight class, and the B and C group lift earlier in the day to that of the A group, any lifter moving up from his nominated weight category at the Technical Meeting, must present himself ten minutes before the scales open for his nominated category and inform the officials of his intentions. Any lifter changing weight categories will be placed in the C group if groups are split into three, or the B group if split into two.