British Disabled Lifters Association

TASS Athlete Responsibilities

·     Lifters must be a member of BWLA and are not in dispute with it or any other member organisation.

·     Lifters must have or be eligible to hold an IPC Lifters Passport.

·     Lifters must be eligible to compete for Great Britain.

      Lifters must have competed and registered lifts within the IPC British Powerlifting Championship.

·      Lifters must have achieved the Bursary or Scholarship criteria and be a minimum of

  Bursary - 16 years of age as at 1st September 2004.

 Scholarship - 18 years of age as at 1st September 2004.

·    Lifters must attend the IPC British Powerlifting Championships once in receipt of TASS.

·     Lifters must attend an assessment camp.

·     Lifters must have an appropriate training infrastructure and commit to an annual training/competition plan agreed by BWLA.  Together with maintaining a training and competition log.

·     Lifters must maintain fitness throughout the duration of the agreed TASS.

·    Lifters must notify the regional consortia and BWLA of any changes to personal contact details and complete and return all requests for documentation within the time frames.

·     Lifters must be willing to undertake a Sports Medicine and Science assessment or profile.

·     Lifters must have agreed to positively co-operate with the BWLA Anti-Doping Control procedures and to complete the consent form to be tested at IPC competitions

·     Lifters on the scheme must demonstrate continual improvement.

Please find below the application form for  TASS .

You will need Acrobat adobe to view the form which you can print off and send to the BWLA Administrator. If you require any more information please contact us using the email address on the contact page

TASS FORM