{"id":1571,"date":"2022-12-16T10:02:50","date_gmt":"2022-12-15T23:02:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.downsyndrome.org.au\/voice\/?p=1571"},"modified":"2022-12-16T10:02:51","modified_gmt":"2022-12-15T23:02:51","slug":"going-for-gold","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.downsyndrome.org.au\/voice\/2022\/12\/16\/going-for-gold\/","title":{"rendered":"Going for gold"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Through hard work and dedication, 31-year-old Jack Carroll achieved a big goal this year: he won the 2022 Australian Powerlifting Union Special Olympic Nationals for the under 74-kilogram weight class.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Jack has been powerlifting for over a decade. From his home along the Murray River, he trains every week – not only in weights, but in martial arts, yoga and swimming when he can fit it into his busy schedule.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

At the recent Nationals on the Gold Coast, Jack squatted 115 kilograms, bench-pressed 85 kilograms, and dead-lifted 145 kilograms to win his new title.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Here is how his championship day looked:
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Jack has his weight checked by officials before competition.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n
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Stretching your muscles before training means there is less of a chance of injury. <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n
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Jack gets three turns at each section of the competition to improve his result.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n
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Doing yoga stretches in between the next event.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n
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Jack\u2019s mum Merrill watches closely as Jack competes.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n
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Jack Carroll during the squat competition at the 2022 Australian Powerlifting Union Special Olympic Nationals.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n
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Chalking hands up for better grip for the deadlift.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n
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Jack Carroll competing in deadlift at the 2022 Australian Powerlifting Union Special Olympic Nationals.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n
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Jack Carroll enjoying his big win at the 2022 Australian Powerlifting Union Special Olympic Nationals for the under 74kg category.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n
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Jack\u2019s winning gold medal.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

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Jack Carroll is an Australian Powerlifting champion, and has the medals to prove it. Photos by Voice Managing Editor Lisa Clarke.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1556,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_relevanssi_hide_post":"","_relevanssi_hide_content":"","_relevanssi_pin_for_all":"","_relevanssi_pin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_unpin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_include_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_exclude_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_no_append":"","_relevanssi_related_not_related":"","_relevanssi_related_posts":"410,856,610,986,675,692","_relevanssi_noindex_reason":"","inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[155,152,15,9,121,45,21,28,156,153,154,120],"class_list":["post-1571","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-australian-national-powerlifting","tag-competition","tag-disability","tag-down-syndrome","tag-exercise","tag-health","tag-inclusion","tag-intellectual-disability","tag-jack-carroll","tag-powerlifting","tag-special-olympics","tag-sport"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.downsyndrome.org.au\/voice\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1571","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.downsyndrome.org.au\/voice\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.downsyndrome.org.au\/voice\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.downsyndrome.org.au\/voice\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.downsyndrome.org.au\/voice\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1571"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/www.downsyndrome.org.au\/voice\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1571\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1601,"href":"https:\/\/www.downsyndrome.org.au\/voice\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1571\/revisions\/1601"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.downsyndrome.org.au\/voice\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1556"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.downsyndrome.org.au\/voice\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1571"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.downsyndrome.org.au\/voice\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1571"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.downsyndrome.org.au\/voice\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1571"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}