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Hafþór broke his own former world record of 4 revolutions around the plinth performed during 2009 Westfjord's Viking, which was his first ever strongman competition. Shield carry – 190 kg (419 lb) for 80 metres (262 ft 6 in) (2012 Europe's Strongest Man (World Record) [65] Mooring-bitt carry – 225 kg (496 lb) for 40 metres (131 ft 3 in ...
Power Stairs – A series of three Duck Walk implements ranging from 400–600 pounds (181–272 kg) are lifted, step by step, to the top of a flight of stairs. [53] Squat – Squatting large weights, such as 900 pounds (410 kg) of bricks, a car, or people on a platform. Recently, an apparatus has been used that drops weighted kegs into a cage ...
According to this setup, a male athlete weighing 320 pounds and lifting a total of 1400 pounds would have a normalised lift weight of 353.0, and a lifter weighing 200 pounds and lifting a total of 1000 pounds (the sum of their highest successful attempts at the squat, bench, and deadlift) would have a normalised lift weight of 288.4. Thus the ...
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.
348 kg. Tatiana Kashirina. Russia. 16 November 2014. World Championships. Almaty, Kazakhstan. [24][47] ^1 On the website of the International Weightlifting Federation, there is still the record of Nurcan Taylan (Turkey) of 121 kg who was disqualified for doping for this result. [48] Here was the previous mark.
Powerlifting is a competitive strength sport that consists of three attempts at maximal weight on three lifts: squat, bench press, and deadlift. As in the sport of Olympic weightlifting, it involves the athlete attempting a maximal weight single-lift effort of a barbell loaded with weight plates. Powerlifting evolved from a sport known as "odd ...
His winning lifts were: a 925.9 pounds (420.0 kg) squat, the 661.4 pounds (300.0 kg) bench press and an 837.8 pounds (380.0 kg) deadlift. [4] The bench press and deadlift were done raw (unequipped), while the squat was performed with wraps and a marathon squat suit. [8] His powerlifting performance is regarded as one of the best of all time.
2007. Benedikt " Benni " Magnússon (/ ˈbɛni ˈmæɡnəsən / BEN-ee MAG-nə-sən, Icelandic: [ˈpɛːnɛtɪxt ˈmaknusɔn]; born 4 June 1983) is an Icelandic strongman and powerlifter. 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 ...