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Note: Despite historical claims about Hermann Görner, Bob Peoples and Benoit Cote having lifted heavier numbers, it is Terry Todd and Wilbur Miller who are generally considered the first two individuals to break the 317.5 kg (700 lb) barrier in a documented and official setting with irrefutable evidence, hence initiating the inaugural official world record deadlift in 1964.
Deadlift – 480 kg (1,058 lb) Replica Elephant bar, raw with straps (unofficial world record) [158] → The Heaviest Strongman Raw Deadlift of All-time irrespective of the bar. Deadlift for reps – 455 kg (1,003 lb) x 2 reps Replica Elephant bar, raw with straps (unofficial world record) [159] → First person in history to rep 1,000 lbs
Deadlift – 780–820 lb (353.8–371.9 kg) raw [56] (Peary Rader wrote in Iron Man Magazine that Anderson's best raw deadlift was 780 lb.) [57] Assisted deadlift (using metal hooks attached to the wrists) – "over 800" to 1,000 lb (453.6 kg) [58] [5] [30] [39] → 1,000 lb per Peary Rader, March 1961, and Tommy Kono, 1992. Contemporary ...
He held the raw deadlift world record from 2011 to 2022 with 460.4 kg (1,015 lb), and it remains the heaviest raw deadlift ever done in conventional stance. [1] [2] Benedikt also holds the record for the heaviest raw conventional deadlift ever performed within a full powerlifting competition at 442.5 kg (976 lb). [3]
Bob Peoples was an American powerlifter and farmer, known for breaking the record for world's heaviest deadlift. [1] He first set the Light-heavyweight deadlift world record in 1946 lifting 651 lbs at a bodyweight of 175 lbs. He later beat his own record in 1947 with a lift of 710 lbs at a body weight of 185 lbs.
Yokozuna, the heaviest WWE wrestler, weighing between 267 kg (589 lb; 42 st 1 lb) and 317 kg (699 lb; 49 st 13 lb) at his peak. Barry Austin and Jack Taylor, two obese British men documented in the comedy-drama The Fattest Man in Britain. Big Pun (1971–2000), American rapper whose weight at death was 316 kg (697 lb; 49 st 11 lb).
In 2022, he was defeated by fellow World's Strongest Man Hafþór Júlíus Björnsson in a boxing match that was taglined "The Heaviest Boxing Match in History". He has presented his own television series called Eddie Eats America (2018) and was featured in the History Channel series The Strongest Man in History (2019).
At 2011 Giants Live London, Felix shared the world record for the heaviest strongman style Deadlift with Brian Shaw, Laurence Shahlaei and Terry Hollands when they all pulled 412.5 kg (909 lb). He then increased it to 420 kg (926 lb) and shared the record with Shaw and Shahlaei, but the two of them again raised it to 430 kg (948 lb).