USAW Illinois Weightlifting State Organization
Our Mission
The purpose of the Illinois Weightlifting State Organization (WSO) is to promote the sport of Olympic Weightlifting in the US State of Illinois. The methods of said promotion shall be determined from time to time by the Board of Directors for Illinois WSO (“The Board”).
2025 Illinois State Championships Announced
2025 Illinois WSO Championships will be held May 3-4 2025 at West Aurora High School, Aurora IL. Stay tuned for more information
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Illinois State Records
The IL WSO Board automatically updates the records after each years IL State Championship event. Record setting lifts set at any other event must be submitted to the IL WSO Board record keeper via the button below.
To be eligible for a record:
You must must be a resident of Illinois at the time the record was set
The competition and specific lift(s) must have been contested with the existing weight categories authorized by IWF July 2018.
Results must have been set at a USAW recognized event held by a USAW recognized federation (USAW and IWF). Records set at events of other federations are not eligible.
For results not listed in USAW BARS, the lift result must be verifiable via another source. This mostly applies to records set at International competitions – these results are not always loaded into BARS.
Have a lift you think meets these criteria but is not reflected? Submit your information via this form and we will investigate and update the record once we verify the result.