Roman Bychyk

Head of Weightlifting. Roman is the mettle lead youth coach. Originally from Livv, Ukraine he came to the UK in 2003 and is now a British citizen. Roman competed regionally, nationally and internationally for Ukraine. With a weightlifting scholarship to Lviv politehnik University in 2000 he studied Engineering for 6 years completing an undergraduate and masters degree in the area.

During this time Roman trained as a full time Olympic weightlifter in the national Ukrainian system. He had national and internationally qualification at Ukraine with best lifts of 150kg in the snatch and 180kg in the C&J with a 330kg total at 94kg. Romans passion is now in coaching and producing successful young weightlifters who win competitions and break records. He's also still a competitor of course with his eye on international masters records soon.