Northbrook powerlifter prepares to represent Team USA at IPF World Championships

Posted July 22, 2023 11:00 pm

Rachel Olshansky

Northbrook powerlifter and recent graduate of Glenbrook North High School Rachel Olshansky has been invited to represent Team USA at the IPF World Classic Powerlifting Championships in Cluj Napoca, Romania in September.

Olshansky trains five times a week at Chicago Barbell Compound in Chicago Illinois, as well as at our local Lifetime Fitness.

In June, Olshansky traveled to Scottsdale, Arizona to compete at the national championships, where she place second in the 84-kilogram sub-junior division, with 14-18-year-old competitors. She is one of only 9 lifters in the entire country who have been chosen to be on the worlds team.

She enters the championship meet with personal-best lifts of 370 pounds in the deadlift, 170 pounds in the bench press, and 290 pounds in the squat.

Olshansky is currently projected as fifth in the world and hopes to bring back a medal in either the bench press or the deadlift.

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