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Peter Tregloan

b. 1957

British athlete

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Born 1957. Peter Tregloan is a British powerlifter and strongman.

Peter Tregloan (born 18 October 1957 - 20 novembre 2025) is a British former strongman and powerlifter. He has won a number of titles including nine world championships in powerlifting and is the current world record holder in squat, deadlift and total weight for the masters age class.

in Italy at World Championships

Las Vegas WPC Eorlds 1991, 1992 Stone England, 1993 Macon France, 1994 Columbus Ohio 1996 Durban S.A., 1998 Graz Austria open, 1st masters Captown S.A.

Early life Peter Tregloan was born in 1957 He moved federations in 1990 to the World Powerlifting Congress and came second to Gerrit Badenhorst in the 1990 World Championships in Pescara. He continued to improve and 1991 won first world title in Las Vegas, 1992 won worlds in Stone England, 1993 won Worlds in Macon France, 1994 won Worlds in Columbus Ohio, Won Worlds in by 1996 lifted a total of 1057.5 kg to take the world title in Durban. In 2001 was injured lifted with torn right triceps advised not to lift but did and was asked to lift in the open bad bench press due to triceps tear led to a third-place finish in Open and first As a Master in Cape Town although in December of that year in Amberg, World Cup he set the world record for the Masters age category in Deadlift, Squat and Total. He returned to form in 2002 in Helsinki, where he won both the open and masters world championships then a month later lifted in World Cup in Innsbruck Austria won class and was best overall lifter of all weight classes, also set new world record in squat 457.5 kg and total 1072.5 kg Peter has since become a therapist in human and equine therapy work although he remains involved in powerlifting as the president of the Global Powerlifting Committee ("GPC") of Great Britain, Europe and the World.

He moved into healing as a professional because of his extensive contact with therapists due to his many different injuries acquired over his sporting career. During that time he has said that he was told he had a natural gift for helping people with bad backs and other such ailments, using techniques learned from his old judo master who trained in Japan for many year and he learnt the healing side of Judo. However, in order to become a therapist full-time he began to train and he has completed over 100 courses since 2000. He has since become a member of a number of bodies including: the Federation of Holistic Therapists, the American Craniosacral therapy Association, the CranioSacral Society; the Process Acupressure Association; and the Zero Balancing Association UK. He opened the Kernowyon for One and All, Zhuang Dan Centre in St Helier, Jersey. in order to practice. Since holds clinics in Guernsey, South West England, and Denmark. Of his teachers he cited Process Acupressure founder Aminah Raheem, and Dr Fritz Smith (founder of Zero Balancing) as two of his mentors. In his day-to-day work he uses a combination of John Upledger's form CranioSacral Therapy, SamatoEmotional Release, Process Acupressure, Basic Acupressure, Viscera Manipulation, Neural Manipulation, Manual Articular Approach plus a few others

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Who is Peter Tregloan?

British athlete

When was Peter Tregloan born?

Peter Tregloan was born on 2 December 1957 in Redruth.

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Peter Tregloan is a powerlifter and strongman.

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Peter Tregloan is British.

Sources & further reading

· Wikipedia: Peter Tregloan

· Wikidata: Q7177373

· DBpedia: Peter Tregloan

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