Varbanov Weightlifting

Whatever your goals may be, Varbanov Weightlifting is an optimal training environment to start and or continue your journey in the sport of Olympic Weightlifting! It is our mission to set the standard for high quality weightlifting coaching in Canada and have made strategic partnerships to allow our athletes to have the best training environment possible.

VARBANOV WEIGHTLIFTING

ALEX VARBANOV

Head coach, devoted over 40 years to the sport of Olympic Weightlifting as a professional athlete and coach. Alex Varbanov is three-time World Champion, four-time European Champion, Olympian with a bronze medal from the 1988 Olympics in Seoul. To Alex belong 10 official world records, 2 of them still in The Guinness Book of Records (215.5 kg C&J / 382.5 kg Total).

Alex possesses a Master’s Degree from the National Sports Academy (Bulgaria) and NCCP (CAC’s flagship program) certification as High Performance Weightlifting Coach.

Alex Varbanov has coached high performers from national, provincial and local weightlifting teams in numerous countries at different continents: Bulgaria, Germany, France, Chile, Canada.

NICK VARBANOV

Our assistant coach Nick has devoted 10+ years to the Weightlifting sport, 7 of them at a high performance level. At the age of 20 he’s already nine-time Canadian Junior and Senior Champion in four different categories. To Nick Varbanov belong a multitude of Juvenile, Youth, Junior and Senior Ontario Records, as well as Canadian Junior and Senior Record (166 kg C&J).

Nick is NCCP Competition Introduction Certified weightlifting coach.