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At the same time, she was very close to some powerlifting world records and thought it best to focus her efforts there. [14] Her squat is 601.9 pounds (273.0 kg) (equipped), bench press is 523.6 pounds (237.5 kg) (equipped with bench shirt), and she is the only woman to deadlift 621 pounds (282 kg) (equipped).
This is a list of world records in Olympic weightlifting. These records are maintained in each weight class for the snatch lift, clean and jerk lift, and the total for both lifts. The International Weightlifting Federation (IWF) restructured its weight classes in 1993, 1998 and 2018, nullifying earlier records.
Lasha Talakhadze (Georgian: ლაშა ტალახაძე; Georgian pronunciation: [laʃa tʼalaχadze]; born 2 October 1993) is a Georgian weightlifter, holding the all-time world records regardless of weight category in the snatch (225 kg, 496 lb), the clean and jerk (267 kg, 589 lb), and the total (492 kg, 1,085 lb) since 2021.
b Not a world record at the time of the competition, became a world record in February 2020 when IWF disqualified some results of Thai weightlifters from the 2018 World Championships. By that time, however, it had been surpassed. c Not a world record at the time of the competition, became a world record in February 2020 when IWF disqualified ...
At 33, Mary Theisen-Lappen is the oldest woman weightlifter competing in Paris. And her unorthodox road to Olympics runs through Bloomington, Indiana.
Naim Süleymanoğlu (Bulgarian: Наим Сюлейманоглу; 23 January 1967 – 18 November 2017) [1] [2] was a Turkish Olympic weightlifter. He was a seven-time World Weightlifting champion and a three-time Olympic gold medalist who set 46 world records. At 147 cm in height, Süleymanoğlu's short stature and great strength led to him ...
Karyn Marshall (born April 2, 1956, in Miami, Florida) is an American Olympic weightlifter who won the first women's world championship in weightlifting, held in 1987. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] [ 5 ] [ 6 ] She also set 60 American and world records in women's weightlifting and in 1985 became the first woman in history to clean and jerk over 300 lb (136 kg ...
During her powerlifting career, many publications, including Sports Illustrated magazine, [4] considered her to be the strongest woman in the world. [5] As a powerlifter, Todd set more than 60 national and world records, and was included in the Guinness Book of Records for over a decade.