Meet Recap: Christiane is your 2025 USAPL Raw Nationals 65kg Champ and Best Overall Female Lifter! After multiple years of near misses on taking that top spot, Christiane brought it home this year and on a near flawless performance. She ended the day with a 441lbs. squat, 286lb. bench press, and a 430lb. deadlift for a PR total of 1157lbs. Christiane continued to live up to her squat queen standards, and finally broke the 200kg barrier on an all out grinder. Right before this lift @solana_lifts asked me why I didn’t take the chip and go 200.5kg, and I responded that I didn’t want to add any extra risk with an extra .5kg. That ended up being a bit more correct than I had hoped, and Christiane had the grind of her life on that 200kg squat, but locked it out for a new PR and USAPL American Record squat. The rest of the day went right as planned, and coming into deadlift we knew we needed 195kg to take over the best overall lifter spot from Mae, and that 185kg would very likely seal the deal for 1st in her weight class. So we adjusted the game plan and opened heavy at 185kg so that we could take 195kg on her 2nd deadlift, just in case anything weird happened and we needed the opportunity to retry it on her 3rd. Christiane nailed it, and locked in all of her goals for the day to cap out a near perfect Nationals.

Division: Open

Weight Class: 65kg

Squat: 441lbs.

Bench: 286lbs.

Deadlift: 430lbs.

Total: 1157lbs.

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