Boström is headed to the 2026 Sheffield Powerlifting Championships.
Final up to date on July 1st, 2025
The 2025 Worldwide Powerlifting Federation (IPF) World Basic Championships in Chemnitz, Germany, featured 15 world data throughout all weight classes. Amongst them was Sweden’s Alba Boström’s new whole world file within the Ladies’s 63KG class.
The 2025 IPF World Basic Championships have been Boström’s sophomore contest within the senior class. Her first was the 2025 Sheffield Powerlifting Championships, the place she ranked tenth total.
Boström’s efficiency in Chemnitz was not solely a bountiful rebound from Sheffield however a record-altering one. She achieved a 565-kilogram world file whole.
Nevertheless, Boström doesn’t imagine a rebound and redemption are the identical issues. She intends to course-correct her 2025 Sheffield efficiency in 2026 as her victory in Chemnitz certified her for the 2026 Sheffield Powerlifting Championships. She is the seventh athlete to safe her spot on that roster.
Though I’ve a great meet now, it’s nonetheless not redemption for Sheffield as a result of I can’t do this at every other meet.
—Alba Boström
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Boström’s whole world file was 5 kilograms greater than Chiara Bernardi’s earlier file of 560 kilograms and 9 kilograms greater than Boström’s earlier better of 554 kilograms, which she scored on the 2024 IPF World Junior Championships in Malta.
2025 IPF World Basic Championships Outcomes — Alba Boström, 52KG
Boström established an ideal nine-for-nine efficiency in Germany.
- Squat
- 185 kilograms
- 190 kilograms
- 197.5 kilograms
- Bench Press
- 125 kilograms
- 132.5 kilograms
- 140 kilograms
- Deadlift
- 210 kilograms
- 222.5 kilograms
- 227.5 kilograms
- Complete — 565 kilograms — World File
“I’m truthfully nonetheless confused, and haven’t actually processed it,” Boström stated on her Instagram web page following her huge win. “Typically I’m tremendous completely happy, and different occasions I’m not happy. However after Sheffield, we set out on a mission. I wished to redeem myself after that efficiency, and we managed to take all the teachings from the previous yr and pull it collectively on the day.”
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