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The USAPL Raw Powerlifting National Championships have been contested since 2005. The Championships are broken up into the standard weight classes and age divisions (Teens, Juniors, Open, Masters). The Championships started out with around 150 lifters, but have now grown to over 1,000. Teen National Champions Junior National Champions
In 2021, Olivares made his IPF debut. He competed in the open category despite being a junior (23-years-old). He broke four International Powerlifting Federation world junior records, squatting 427.5 kilograms, bench pressing 252.5 kilograms for a full power and bench press only junior record, and a totaled 1,045 kilograms for a junior record, and would win his first gold medal.
Atwood competed in his first recorded strength competition in high school in 2007, where he clean and jerked 270 lbs and bench pressed 335 lbs. [2] Atwood competed in his first powerlifting competition in 2013, and won his first Nationals from USA Powerlifting in 2014. [3]
He only started talking at age 11. [2] He began weightlifting at age 12, after becoming interested due to his two brothers being athletes, and by age 13, he was able to lift 185 pounds (84 kg). [ 3 ] [ 4 ] He attended Newark High School in Newark, Delaware , where he won a varsity letter as a member of the wrestling team.
Doug Young (August 21, 1944 – October 7, 2005) was an American national and world powerlifting champion multiple times throughout his career while competing in the 242 lb. and 275 lb. weight classes. [1] Doug won his third straight world championship title at the 1977 IPF world championships. [1]
Last weekend, she set three national records at a powerlifting meet. She lifted 332.2 pounds in the squat, 402 pounds in the deadlift, And she benched 155 pounds. "I was so happy with the results ...
In 1979 at age 25, he set a world record with a bench press of 622 lb (282.1 kg) on the way to winning his first IPF World Powerlifting Championship in Dayton, Ohio. [8] His winning lifts included an 865 lb (392.4 kg) squat , the 622 lb (282.1 kg) bench press and an 804 lb (364.7 kg) deadlift for a 2,291 lb (1,039.2 kg) total. [ 4 ]
In 2005, he competed in the tournament held in Chengdu, China; at the age of 20 years and 46 days, and made history as the youngest competitor ever to have qualified to the World's Strongest Man. [2] Nee also competed in the 2006 World's Strongest Man championship in Sanya , China, but did not make it to the final round of competition.