2025 APO National Championship

Come join the APO in York, Pennsylvania at historic York Barbell “The Strongest Name in Fitness” for our second APO National Championships June 7 and 8 2025. Sign up on the APO website home page. All who have completed an APO or WPO-Pro meet since the federation inception in early 2024 qualify to enter.

York Barbell’s dynamic event center boasts a integral lifting stage, auditorium with bleacher and chair seating, and full size gym for warmups. The adjacent Weightlifting Hall of Fame contains a diverse history of strength sports, their evolution from mythology to early Olympic Games and from the 19th and 20th-century amateur and professional strongmen to the current specialized sport of Olympic weightlifting, powerlifting, and bodybuilding.

York Barbell was founded by the legendary Bob Hoffman, and began shaping the fitness industry through product design, education, competition, and athletic sponsorship. Clearly York Barbell is the “Strongest Name in Fitness,” York Barbell and York, PA are a family friendly “destination vacation” location. York and nearby Hershey, offer many possibilities for a family getaway. This is clearly one of the best locations and area hold a powerlifting National Championship, and is very consistent with the APO tag line “Powerlifting the way it should be”.