{"id":16684,"date":"2026-03-29T13:02:00","date_gmt":"2026-03-29T13:02:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/worldbodybuildingnews.com\/?p=16684"},"modified":"2026-03-29T13:02:00","modified_gmt":"2026-03-29T13:02:00","slug":"martins-sergio-martinez-lifts-to-state-championship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/worldbodybuildingnews.com\/?p=16684","title":{"rendered":"Martin&#8217;s Sergio Martinez lifts to state championship"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div data-block-type=\"text\" data-dropcap=\"false\">\n<p>Sergio Martinez traveled to Abilene&#8217;s Expo Center on March 27 and returned to Laredo as a state champion.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div data-block-type=\"text\" data-dropcap=\"false\">\n<p>Martinez, a junior at Martin who&#8217;s coached by Mark Duron, won a state championship as a super heavyweight in the unequipped division.\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div data-block-type=\"text\" data-dropcap=\"false\">\n<p>He totaled 1,570 pounds with a 620-pound squat, 385-pound bench and 565-pound\u00a0deadlift. Martinez was 40 total pounds ahead of any other powerlifter.\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div data-block-type=\"text\" data-dropcap=\"false\">\n<p>The state championship is an exclamation mark on an impressive junior campaign for Martinez, who was the Region 5 champion as a super heavyweight in the unequipped division a few weeks ago with a total of 1,550 pounds.\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div data-block-type=\"text\" data-dropcap=\"false\">\n<p>To compete in unequipped, lifters are limited to wearing just knee sleeves, wrist wraps, a belt and a spandex singlet. The state champion of the unequipped division can almost be seen as the true state champion, given the amount of competition in the field.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div data-block-type=\"text\" data-dropcap=\"false\">\n<p>Martinez joins the ranks of recent Laredo state champions in\u00a0powerlifting, such as United South&#8217;s Jonathan Pena and Rudy Flores, and Nixon&#8217;s Marco Banda. Pena and Flores both won two straight state titles in 2014 and 2015, while Banda won his in 2015..\u00a0Flores, a super heavyweight, owns the state record of 2,175 pounds.\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div data-block-type=\"text\" data-dropcap=\"false\">\n<p>The success is the weight room has also translated onto the football. With the Tigers this past fall, Martinez earned second-team All-District honors at offensive tackle.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.lmtonline.com\/sports\/article\/martin-s-sergio-martinez-lifts-state-championship-22157275.php\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sergio Martinez traveled to Abilene&#8217;s Expo Center on March 27 and returned to Laredo as a state champion. Martinez, a junior at Martin who&#8217;s coached by Mark Duron, won a state championship as a super heavyweight in the unequipped division.\u00a0 He totaled 1,570 pounds with a 620-pound squat, 385-pound bench and 565-pound\u00a0deadlift. 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