{"id":15340,"date":"2026-03-09T12:10:00","date_gmt":"2026-03-09T12:10:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/worldbodybuildingnews.com\/?p=15340"},"modified":"2026-03-09T12:10:00","modified_gmt":"2026-03-09T12:10:00","slug":"harrogate-powerlifter-lottie-mcguinness-wins-bronze-at-european-championships","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/worldbodybuildingnews.com\/?p=15340","title":{"rendered":"Harrogate powerlifter Lottie McGuinness wins bronze at European Championships"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/thestrayferret.co.uk\/in-your-area\/harrogate\">Harrogate<\/a>\u00a0para powerlifter Lottie McGuinness secured a bronze medal at the European Open Championships in Georgia yesterday (March 8).<\/p>\n<p>Competing in the women\u2019s up to 61kg category, McGuinness lifted 104kg and 108kg on the bench press to finish third.\u00a0She failed on an attempt at 112kg.<\/p>\n<p>Of the 12 competitors, only Turkey\u2019s Besra Duman and Russia\u2019s Tamara Podpalnaia lifted more.<\/p>\n<p>It is McGuinness&#8217;s first-ever medal at a major championships, and her first since <a href=\"https:\/\/thestrayferret.co.uk\/news\/latest\/watch-harrogate-paralympian-lottie-mcguinness-on-breaking-the-british-record\">breaking the British record<\/a> in July last year.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking to the Stray Ferret today (March 9), McGuinness said:<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/thestrayferret.co.uk\/news\/sport\/harrogate-powerlifter-lottie-mcguinness-wins-bronze-at-european-championships\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Harrogate\u00a0para powerlifter Lottie McGuinness secured a bronze medal at the European Open Championships in Georgia yesterday (March 8). Competing in the women\u2019s up to 61kg category, McGuinness lifted 104kg and 108kg on the bench press to finish third.\u00a0She failed on an attempt at 112kg. Of the 12 competitors, only Turkey\u2019s Besra Duman and Russia\u2019s Tamara [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":596,"featured_media":15341,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[273],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15340","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-powerlifting-news"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Harrogate powerlifter Lottie McGuinness wins bronze at European Championships - World Bodybuilding News<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/worldbodybuildingnews.com\/?p=15340\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Harrogate powerlifter Lottie McGuinness wins bronze at European Championships - World Bodybuilding News\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Harrogate\u00a0para powerlifter Lottie McGuinness secured a bronze medal at the European Open Championships in Georgia yesterday (March 8). 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