User talk:ChrisDanielJenkins

Chris Jenkins is a Welsh, British, European and world powerlifting champion. Chris Jenkins was born on the 9th of august in Neath general hospital and attended a Welsh speaking school Ysgol Gyfun Gwyr. Jenkins currently resides in Port Talbot, Wales (UK).

Early life
At the age of eleven Chris Jenkins was introduced to weight training using an old bullworker and pair of dumbells made from the local steel works by his grand father Raymond Williams. As a teenager at school Chris Jenkins was a natural athlete participating in track and field for the local county and Wales. At sixteen Chris Jenkins competed in a number of sports Karate, kickboxing, judo, boxing and powerlifting. It was the same year his father took him to train under the instruction of commonwealth games medalist olympic lifting champion Mike Brown to improve his power for running. In 1999 Chris Jenkins won the NABBA junior mr Wales and in the same month the Welsh powerlifting championsips at 82.5kgs with a 250kg deadlift the first time he attempted the exercise without a powerlifting suit.

Career
In 2003 Chris Jenkins won his first junior world title in Vienna, Austria and broke the WPC/GPC junior world 90kg record with 321.5kg at the British championships in Bournemouth England, previosly held by Ed Coan. later increasing the record to 331kgs at the 2004 British championships. In 2006 Chris Jenkins won the 90kg British title and overal British title in Maidstone Kent with a 900kg total (372.5kg + 202.5k + 325kg). Also in the same year winning the GPC world championships at 90kg in Ghent, Belgium. Jenkins has since competed in the WPC/WPO he is the current 82.5kg British champion. Jenkins holds deadlift records at 82.5k with 322.5kg and 90kgs with 355kgs.

Jenkins has also competed in strongman contests, the first being the UK strongestman final in 2009.