ATR Extra: Heavy Lifting - Queensland Leads Australia s Weightlifting Revival 12/11/20
(ATR) They have to thank their wives for finding their way into weightlifting coaching almost by accident yet Australian Olympic team coach Miles Wydall and protégé Callum Hannay typify how the sport is thriving in the State of Queensland while its reputation and Olympic status is the subject of a massive realignment internationally.
Callum Hannay assists a lifter at the Burleigh Barbells gym.
Hannay laughs that his first encounter with wife Sarah, a keen CrossFit competitor, former Mutai fighter and boxer, calling it “love at first fight”. It led to him making the progression from Mutai to CrossFit to barbells.