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List Of Powerlifters
{{short description, None This page lists people known for their accomplishments in powerlifting. A-F * Ahmed Abukhater * Alan Aerts * Paul Anderson (weightlifter) * Taylor Atwood *Ted Arcidi *Nick Best *Big E (wrestler) * Fernando Báez (weightlifter) *Dean Bowring * Jean-Pierre Brulois *Hugh Cassidy * Paul Childress *Anthony Clark (powerlifter) *Ed Coan * Stefanie Cohen *Jon Cole (weightlifter) *Harold Collins (strongman) *Tazzie Colomb * Scott Danberg *Connor Dantzler * Vadym Dovhanyuk *Ric Drasin *Stan Efferding *Rachael Ellering *Sergey Fedosienko * C.T. Fletcher *George Frenn *Doug Furnas G-L * John Gamble (American football) * Lamar Gant *Brad Gillingham * Karl Gillingham *Dan Green (powerlifter) *Billy Gunn * John Haack * Mike Hall (powerlifter) *Shane Hamman * Frederick Hatfield *Van Hatfield *Big James Henderson *Mark Henry * Hideaki Inaba * Hiroyuki Isagawa * Dave Jacoby (powerlifter) * Ransilu Jayathilake * Kirk Karwoski *Bill Kazmaier * Doyle Kenady * Jill Kennedy *Rya ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Powerlifting
Powerlifting is a 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 lifts", which followed the same three-attempt format but used a wider variety of events, akin to strongman competition. Eventually odd lifts became standardized to the current three. In competition, lifts may be performed equipped or un-equipped (typically referred to as 'classic' or 'raw' lifting in the IPF specifically). Equipment in this context refers to a supportive bench shirt or squat/deadlift suit or briefs. In some federations, knee wraps are permitted in the equipped but not un-equipped division; in others, they may be used in both equipped and un-equipped lifting. Weight belts, knee sleeves, wrist wraps, and special footwear may also be u ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Harold Collins (strongman)
Harold "Iron Bear" Collins is a former professional strongman and world champion Powerlifter. Collins is a member of the Tuskarora Nation of Moratoc Indians in North Carolina, and calls himself the "World's Strongest Native American". Strongman/Powerlifting Collins competed in the finals of the World's Strongest Man competition twice, finishing 6th in 1993 and 10th in 1997. Collins is a 2 time USPF National Powerlifting champion, and is a 2 time IPF World Championships bench press gold medalist. Collins holds multiple North Carolina Bench press records, including the North Carolina State Bench press record in the 275 lb. class with 601 lbs. which he pressed 6 times. He also holds the North Carolina State Bench press record in the Superheavyweight Division with a 633 lb. Bench press. Guinness World Records Collins has set a total of 6 Guinness world records during his lifetime. His first world record was set in October 1994 by pulling 7 s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Brad Gillingham
Brad Gillingham (born 1966) is an American world champion powerlifter and strongman competitor from Minnesota, United States. Powerlifting Brad is a 6 time IPF World Powerlifting Champion and a 14 time USAPL National Powerlifting Champion. Brad has won 34 Major Events. Brad has set IPF Open World Records in the 120+ kg Class with a 395 kg (870) deadlift at the 2011 IPF Pacific Invitational in Melbourne, Australia, and a 397.5 kg (876) deadlift at the 2011 IPF World Championships in Pilsen, Czech Republic. Brad set the IPF Open Classic (RAW) World Record deadlift at the 2013 IPF Classic World Championships in Suzdal, Russia with a 375 kg (826) deadlift. Brad has set 16 IPF Masters World Records with highlights being a 400 kg (881) deadlift at the 2010 IPF World Championships in Potchefstroom, South Africa and a 1057.5 kg (2331) Total at the 2008 IPF Masters World Championships in Palm ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lamar Gant
Lamar Gant (born 1957 in Fort Collins, Colorado) is an American world record-holding powerlifter. He competed with idiopathic scoliosis. He was inducted into the International Powerlifting Federation Hall of Fame in 1980. Gant set his first world record in 1974 by deadlifting 524.5 pounds (238 kg) at a bodyweight of at the Flint Olympian Games. In 1985, he became the first person in human history to deadlift The deadlift is a weight training exercise in which a loaded barbell or bar is lifted off the ground to the level of the hips, torso perpendicular to the floor, before being placed back on the ground. It is one of the three powerlifting exercises, ... five times his own bodyweight - lifting at a bodyweight of . He holds the world records for deadlifting in both the 123- and 132-pound weight classes. His best lifts at 123 pounds are RAW bench press and deadlift; at 132 pounds are squat (in training), raw bench press, and deadlift. Referenc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Gamble (American Football)
John Gamble is a former world champion Powerlifter and strongman competitor from Richmond, Virginia. Collegiate career Gamble played linebacker at Hampton University and was a first-team Black College All-America selection. He also earned All-Central Intercollegiate Athletic Association honors in football and in track and field. Weightlifting and strongman career World-renowned in the fields of powerlifting and strongman competition, Gamble was the top ranked powerlifter in the world in the 275-pound class from 1981 to 1983. His personal records for total pounds in three lifts while competing in the United States Powerlifting Federation was 2,270 pounds, and he has personal bests of full squat, 892 lb; bench press, 573 lb; and dead lift, 826.5 lb in those three lifts. Gamble was inducted into the U.S. Weightlifting Hall of Fame in York, Pennsylvania, in June 1999. He competed twice in the final of the World's Strongest Man competition. In the 1982 World's Stronges ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Doug Furnas
Dwight Douglas Furnas (December 11, 1959 – March 2, 2012) was an American professional wrestler and powerlifter. He was an APF National and World Powerlifting Champion, who set multiple world records in the 275 pound weight class. As a wrestler, Furnas worked for, among other promotions, American majors World Championship Wrestling (WCW), Extreme Championship Wrestling (ECW), and World Wrestling Federation (WWF) best known for being part of the tag team The Can-Am Express with tag team partner Phil Lafon. Furnas was also a longtime mainstay of All Japan Pro Wrestling. Powerlifting career Before becoming a lifter, Furnas was a promising American football player, who had won the High School State and the Junior College National Championships and even made the Denver Broncos training camp. Upon starting powerlifting, Furnas initially campaigned as a 242-pound lifter. At a height of 5'10" he was actually a bit too tall for the weight class. His 242-pound class competitors tended to b ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
George Frenn
George Michael Frenn (December 26, 1941 – June 26, 2006) was an American hammer thrower, weight thrower and powerlifter. Frenn set world bests in the outdoor and indoor weight throws, won two medals in the Pan American Games and competed in the 1972 Summer Olympics. Track and field career Frenn took up track and field in 1957 at North Hollywood High School, initially competing as a runner rather than a thrower. He got interested in hammer throwing in 1959 after seeing Olympic champion and world record holder Hal Connolly throw in a local meet. He improved rapidly, placing sixth at the 1962 NCAA championships with 169 ft 7 in (51.68 m); in that meet, he represented Abilene Christian University, a school he only briefly attended. In 1963 he showed good form from the early spring and placed second behind defending champion Al Hall at the national ( AAU) championships, throwing 198 ft 10 in (60.60 m); ''Track & Field News'' ranked him the t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sergey Fedosienko
Sergey Alexeyevich Fedosienko (russian: Сергей Алексеевич Федосиенко; born 31 July 1982) is a Russian powerlifter. Fedosienko has won 15 gold medals at the world equipped championships and 7 gold medals at the world classic (raw) championships in the IPF. Fedosienko has also won two World Games gold medals in 2013 and 2017. Fedosienko is 1.46 metres, or 4'8", tall. In 2005, Fedosienko failed a doping test and received a 2-year ban. He was stripped of his gold medal at the 2005 European Powerlifting Championships. In 2022, Russia was banned from competing in the European and International Powerlifting Federations due to declaring war on Ukraine. Due to Fedosienko residing in Russia, this would end his 12-year streak as a world champion and be stripped from competing at the 2022 World Games The 2022 World Games were an international multi-sport event held from July 7 to 17, 2022, in Birmingham, Alabama, United States. They were the 11th World Games ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rachael Ellering
Rachael Ellering (born December 28, 1992) is an American professional wrestler Professional wrestling is a form of theater that revolves around staged wrestling matches. The mock combat is performed in a ring similar to the kind used in boxing, and the dramatic aspects of pro wrestling may be performed both in the ring o .... She is a former Impact Knockouts Tag Team Championship, Impact Knockouts Tag Team Champion. She is the daughter of Paul Ellering. She has worked in WWE's NXT (WWE brand), NXT WWE brand extension, brand under the ring name Rachael Evers. Professional wrestling career Early career Ellering trained at the Storm Wrestling Academy, and graduated during December 2015. She went on to debut in Prairie Wrestling Alliance on November 21, 2015, in a match with Lance Storm against Brett Morgan and Gisele Shaw. Ellering made her Shine Wrestling debut at ''Shine Wrestling events#Shine 34, Shine 34'' in a match won by Tessa Blanchard. In a rematch at ''Shine Wr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Stan Efferding
Stan "The White Rhino" Efferding (born November 6, 1967) is an American IFBB professional bodybuilder and a powerlifter competing in the Southern Powerlifting Federation (SPF). He held the all-time raw world powerlifting records in the 275-pound-class in the Total without knee wraps (w/o 2,226.6 lbs) and in the Squat ''without knee wraps'' (854 lbs). Due to his enormous physical strength, regularly competing in professional powerlifting contests along his career in professional competitive bodybuilding, Efferding is often referred to as the "world's strongest bodybuilder". Bodybuilding & Powerlifting career Stan Efferding, born November 6, 1967 in Portland, Oregon, graduated from University of Oregon. He had a college scholarship to play soccer, but he decided to go to University of Oregon, where he studied Psychology. Efferding competed in bodybuilding since 1988 winning the Mr. Oregon in 1991, placing 6th in the Jr. USA in 1992 and placing 2nd in the Emerald Cup i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ric Drasin
Richard Alan Drasin (July 12, 1944 – August 30, 2020) was an American bodybuilder, personal trainer, actor, stuntman, author, and professional wrestler. He wrestled professionally and sporadically between 1965 and 2001, while also winning titles in amateur bodybuilding contests during his younger years. Drasin is also known for having designed both the original Gold's Gym logo — a cartoon sketch of a bald weightlifter — and the World Gym gorilla logo.Perine, Shawn. (2005, December). Gold's goes bald. ''Flex''. Born and raised in Bakersfield, California, Drasin began his fitness career in 1962. He taught classes in nutrition and exercise at the YMCA before he was assigned to train with the National Wrestling Alliance (NWA) champion Mae Young. Life and career Early life Drasin was born Richard Alan Drasin on July 12, 1944 in Bakersfield, California, as the second child of Oscar (1911–1963) and Claire Drasin (1914–2010). His parents owned and operated Drasin's Little F ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vadym Dovhanyuk
Vadym Dovhanyuk ( uk, Вадим Довганюк. Also known as Vadym Dovganyuk; born January 15, 1987) is an 11 times world champion powerlifter and World Games 2013 champion. He holds 36 unbeaten records in powerlifting and bench press. His personal records are squat – 410 kg, bench press – 335.5 kg, deadlift – 325 kg and total 1050.5 kg. Biography Dovhanyuk Vadym Volodymyrovych was born on January 15, 1987, in city Volochysk, Khmelnytskyi Oblast, Ukraine. In 2004 he graduated from the Volochisk School No.5. In 2011 he graduated from Kamyanets-Podilsky Ivan Ohienko National University by speciality Physical culture and Sport. Vadym started powerlifting in 15 years in the small gym owned Volochisk Machine-Building Plant "Motor Sich". Through "Motor Sich" Vadym in 2004 went to the first World Cup held in Pretoria, South Africa for the first time and became world champion. After these events were 10 world championships where V ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
