Coach Education

Learn to improve your coaching skills in Weightlifting!

Weightlifting Wales offers a progressive coach education pathway designed to support individuals at every stage of their coaching journey - from complete beginners to experienced performance coaches. Being a weightlifting coach is pivotal to not just athlete development on the platform, but areas including discipline, resilience, and technical excellence. As a certified coach, you’ll play an important role at club training, competitions, and potentially on to performance pathways.

In collaboration with British Weightlifting (BWL), all the coaching training programmes are built to combine technical expertise, practical learning, and ongoing support to help you develop into a world-class Olympic weightlifting coach. The kind who will contribute to the success of athletes at the elite level and winning medals on national and international stages.

As a Weightlifting Wales / BWL member, you will benefit from a discounted rate on selected BWL coaching courses.

Take a look at all the coaching course options below.

A reminder that to coach in Weightlifting events, coaches will need to have a BWL Coach License in place. This includes having a valid membership, a Level 2 Olympic Weightlifting coaching qualification, a DBS certification, and attending a UK coaching safeguarding course. All coaches in Wales will be required to upload a certificate on their Sport80 account to prove they have attended a three-hour Safeguarding and Protecting Children Workshop. The appropriate course can be found HERE.

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Course Information - Level 1 & 2 Combined Award in Coaching Olympic Weightlifting

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Online Course - Level 1 & 2 Combined Award in Coaching Olympic Weightlifting

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Course Information - Level 3 Diploma in Coaching Olympic Weightlifting

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Online Course - Level 3 Diploma in Coaching Olympic Weightlifting

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DBS Checks for Coaches

As part of our commitment to safeguarding in sport, Weightlifting Wales uses the Welsh Sports Association (WSA) DBS Checking Service for Sport & Leisure. The service is run through its trading arm Vibrant Nation, and provides bilingual, online DBS checks (Disclosure and Barring Service, formally CRB).

The WSA is the only provider of a fully bilingual system and service in Wales, and even offer a free DBS bilingual helpline should you have any questions. WSA offer a range of ID verification options, including the Post Office. The system also utilises the DBS Update Service, allowing Weightlifting Wales to fully enhance our safeguarding practices.

The system is entirely web-based and can be accessed from any location, and is available 24 hours a day, seven days a week. The system will also guide you through the process, ensuring that all correct information is provided thus reducing the likelihood of errors. Most applications are returned within 2 weeks, although many come back much quicker than this, some as quickly as 24 hours.

All individuals working with/having regular unsupervised contact with children should undertake an enhanced disclosure DBS check. Additionally, in weightlifting all licensed coaches must have an enhanced disclosure DBS check.

For more information on DBS checks, please contact the Welsh Sports Association via the e-mail address or Helpline service below:

admin@vibrantnation.co.uk Tel 029 2033 4995

Alternatively contact your Weightlifting Wales safeguarding officers Simon Roach and Hannah Powell via the details below:

Simon.roach@weightlifting.wales; Hannah.powell@weightlifting.wales