Women's barBulldog Gear15kg · 25mmNeedle bearings

Bulldog Gear Elite Women's Olympic Weightlifting Barbell, 15kg

Ten precision needle roller bearings, a titanium–vanadium alloy shaft and an IWF competition knurl, tested above 680kg. Precision straightened with friction-welded sleeves.

A plain unbranded 15kg Olympic barbell with a slimmer shaft, on a gym floor.
Illustrative image — not the actual product

That is not a photograph of this bar. Product photography on this page is illustrative. We are licensing real images of each bar and will swap them in per product as they arrive — until then the pictures show a generic unbranded bar of that type, not the product named beside them.

Published specification

Every figure below is Bulldog Gear’s own published specification for this bar, quoted rather than measured. Where a figure is not published it is not listed — there are no estimates in this table.

Bar weight15kg
Shaft diameter25mm
Overall length2010mm
Sleeve diameter50mm
Sleeve rotation10 precision needle roller bearings
SteelPremium Ti-Vn (titanium–vanadium) alloy steel
KnurlingIWF competition knurl
Centre knurlNo
Knurl marksIWF Olympic weightlifting
Load ratingTested to 1,500lb+ (680kg+)
FinishHard chrome

Who this bar is for

The commercial-grade 15kg bar on this page. Built for a weightlifting floor where it gets dropped from overhead repeatedly.

What this page is not

It is not a review. Nobody at OlympicBars.co.uk has trained on this bar, so there is no score, no star rating and no verdict here, and there never will be unless that changes and we say so plainly. What this page gives you is Bulldog Gear’s own numbers, laid out the same way as every other bar on the site so you can compare them, and a link to the shop so you can check the current price yourself.

Same category

Other women's 15kg bars

15kg, a 25mm shaft and 201cm overall — the IWF specification for women’s weightlifting. The thinner shaft also suits anyone whose hands struggle to close round 28mm.

Other women's 15kg bars compared on published specifications
BarWeightShaftLengthRotationTensileCentre knurlSold by
Rogue The Bella Bar 2.0 — Black ZincRogue15kg25mm201cmBushing190kNoRogue Fitness
Strength Shop Riot Weightlifting Bar 2.0, 15kg — IWF Women's SpecStrength Shop15kg25mm201cmBearing—NoStrength Shop
Mirafit M3 15kg Olympic BarbellMirafit15kg25mm201cmBearing190kNoMirafit
Mirafit Showtime 15kg Olympic Weightlifting BarMirafit15kg25mm201cmBearing190k—Mirafit
Bulldog Gear Home Gym Women's Olympic Barbell, 15kgBulldog Gear15kg25mm201cmBushing240kNoBulldog Gear
Body Power Women's Olympic Bar (201cm / 25mm grip)Body Power15kg25mm201cmBoth—NoFitness Superstore

Every figure is the manufacturer’s or retailer’s own published specification. An em dash (—) means they do not publish that figure — it is never a number we have guessed. “Tensile” is tensile strength in thousands of PSI. “Rotation” is bushings, needle bearings, or both in the same sleeve. No prices are listed here, deliberately: check the current price with the shop.

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Compare it against everything else

All 52 bars on one page, grouped by type, on the same set of published figures.

The full table

Not sure what the numbers mean?

Tensile strength, whip, knurl depth, bushings against bearings — what each one changes when you are actually under the bar.

Specs explained