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This page lists people known for their accomplishments in powerlifting.
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Ahmed Abukhater
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Ahmed Abukhater ( ar, Ø£Øمد أبو خاطر) is an architect, environmental scientist, and an urban and regional planner by trade.• University at Albany, State University of New York, Faculty Experts: Ahmed Abukhater. Available a ...
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Alan Aerts
Alan Aerts is a world powerlifting and benchpress champion, born May 6, 1956. Aerts has polycythemia, a fatal blood disease. He is also the former owner and operator of the largest vending machine business in the San Jose, California area, Cust ...
Fernando Báez (weightlifter)
Fernando Luis Báez Cruz (born 25 July 1941) is a Puerto Rican male former weightlifter, who competed in the 56 kg category and represented Puerto Rico at international competitions. He won the bronze medal in the press at the 1969 World W ...
Jean-Pierre Brulois
Jean-Pierre Brulois (born 18 April 1957) is a former world champion powerlifter, strongman and Olympic Weightlifter from France
Strength sports
Jean-Pierre is best known for winning the 1990 IPF World Powerlifting Champion title in The Hague, Net ...
Jon Cole (weightlifter)
Jon Frederic Cole (April 1, 1943 – January 10, 2013) was a powerlifter, Olympic weightlifter and strongman from the United States. He competed in powerlifting just prior to the formation of the International Powerlifting Federation (IPF ...
Scott Danberg
Scott Danberg (born July 28, 1962) is a Paralympic athlete from Florida in the United States competing in F40 events. Danberg has appeared in five Paralympics representing America in track and field, swimming and powerlifting.
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Connor Dantzler
Connor Dantzler (born February 23, 1994), of Damascus, Maryland, is an accomplished youth American amateur athlete
An athlete (also sportsman or sportswoman) is a person who competes in one or more sports that involve physical strength, sp ...
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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 powerlift ...
C.T. Fletcher
C.T. Ali Fletcher (born June 8, 1959) is an American vlogger, media personality, actor, personal trainer, and former powerlifter and bodybuilder. He is a three-time World Bench Press Champion and three-time World Strict Curl Champion.
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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-Cen ...
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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.
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Karl Gillingham
Karl Gillingham (born February 6, 1965) is an American professional strongman and powerlifter.
Strongman career
Karl has been competing in strongman since 1998 and has consistently been ranked in the top five nationally almost every year he has c ...
Mike Hall (powerlifter)
Michael Hall (born October 3, 1956) is a retired American powerlifter, who is perhaps best known for being a pioneer of the drug-free movement in powerlifting. Hall is considered the first African American Super Heavy ...
Frederick Hatfield
Frederick C. Hatfield (October 21, 1942 – May 14, 2017), nicknamed ''Dr. Squat'', was an American world champion powerlifter and PhD holder in sports sciences.
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Van Hatfield
Van Hatfield (born September 13, 1971) is an American professional strongman competitor and powerlifter from Mapleton, Utah.http://www.americanstrongman.com/athletes/detail.asp?AthleteID=45 Van won America's Stronge ...
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Big James Henderson
James Gregory Henderson, also known as Big James Henderson and James "Hollywood" Henderson, (born April 9, 1965) is a former American powerlifter who specialized in the bench press. He competed in the International Powerlifting Fede ...
Kirk Karwoski
Kirk Karwoski is an American world champion powerlifter. Kirk is a 7 time USPF National Powerlifting Champion, a 6 time IPF World Powerlifting Champion and an IPF Junior World Powerlifting Champion.
Kirk is widely con ...
Doyle Kenady
Doyle Kenady (29 August 1948 – 3 February 1999) was a world champion powerlifter and strongman competitor from the United States. Doyle was best known for winning the IPF World Powerlifting Championships in 1978 and 1980 in the +110&nbs ...
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Jill Kennedy
Jill Kennedy is a Paralympian athlete from United States competing mainly in category F40 throws events.
Kennedy has competed in three Paralympics across two sports. Her first appearance was in Sydney in 2000 where she competed in the w ...
Larry Kidney
Larry Kidney (born August 29, 1939 in Topeka, Kansas) was an American powerlifter. He placed 6th in the 1980 World's Strongest Man Contest held at the Playboy Club in Vernon, New Jersey
Vernon Township is a township in Sussex County, New J ...
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Dan Kovacs
Dan Kovacs (born 1970) is an American competitor in the sport of powerlifting. He once held the world record for the IPA raw total at 308 pounds with a total of 2202 pounds.
He began weightlifting in high school and played football at Indiana Uni ...
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Jason Kristal
Jason Kristal (born on 1979) is an American weightlifter and professional strongman
In the 19th century, the term strongman referred to an exhibitor of strength or similar circus performers who performed feats of strength. More recently ...
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Janae Kroc
Janae Marie Kroczaleski (born December 8, 1972 as Matthew Raymond Kroczaleski) is an American who previously competed as a professional powerlifter and competitive bodybuilder.
In regard to combined (squat, bench press, and deadlift) equipped p ...
Naomi Kutin
Naomi Chaya Kutin (born September 23, 2001 in Mount Kisco, New York)"Naomi Kutin: The First ...
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Amanda Lawrence (powerlifter)
Amanda Lawrence (born May 6, 1997) is an American powerlifter who won three gold medals at the IPF World Classic Powerlifting Championships in the 84 kg category. During the championship, she set three world records (squat, deadlift and total). In ...
Daniella Melo Daniella Melo (born September 26, 1998) is an American powerlifter, who won List of world championships medalists in powerlifting (women) at 2018 IPF World Championship in Calgary. She was tied with Amanda Lawrence
Amanda Lawrence is a British st ...
Jill Mills
Jill Mills (born March 2, 1972) is an American world champion powerlifter and world champion strongwoman.
Powerlifting contest results
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*1996 Alamo Classic, 165 lb. division - 1st
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Tyler Moore (powerlifter)
Tyler Moore is an International Powerlifter for Team USA and is a competitor in the Men's Open Division. When Tyler was a teen, he was elected as Team USA's Jr Bench Press Team captain and won his first international title at the NAPF Bench Pr ...
Jesse Norris
Jesse Norris is an American powerlifter. He holds multiple world records in the 90 kilogram weight class.
Career
Norris had an athletic background prior to powerlifting including both football and track and field. He started competing in the spo ...
Travis Ortmayer
Travis Ortmayer (born August 9, 1981) is an American professional Strongman athlete from Cypress, Texas. He is nicknamed the Texas Stoneman due to his many world records in the Atlas Stone ...
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David Ostlund
David Ostlund (born May 7, 1981) is an American professional strongman competitor. He grew up in Edina, Minnesota and attended Edina High School. Ostlund was a member of the Edina track and field team and competed in the shot put and discus even ...
Mark Philippi
Mark Philippi (born 21 March 1963) is an American world champion powerlifter and strongman competitor. Philippi is a multiple entrant to the World's Strongest Man competition, and former holder of the America's Strongest Man title.
Strongman
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Derek Poundstone
Derek Poundstone (born September 28, 1981) is an American former professional strongman athlete from Woodbridge, Connecticut who placed runner-up at the 2008 World's Strongest Man. Derek Poundstone is a ...
Don Reinhoudt
Donald C. Reinhoudt (born March 5, 1945) is an American former powerlifter and strongman. He won the IPF World Powerlifting Superheavyweight Championship four consecutive times (1973–1976), and won the World's Strongest Man in 1979.
Widely co ...
Nick Scott (bodybuilder) Nick Scott is a disabled professional bodybuilder, wheelchair ballroom dancer, author, and motivational speaker.
Biography
Scott lost nearly all use of his legs in a car accident at the age of 16. Shortly afterward he started weight training, g ...
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Brian Siders
Brian Cameron Siders (born September 11, 1978) is an American world champion powerlifter and regular participant in the Arnold Strongman Classic. Brian is regarded as one of the strongest men to ever walk the planet, especially in press-movements ...
Eric Spoto
Eric D. Spoto (born October 22, 1976) is an American arm-wrestler and powerlifter, who specializes in the bench press. He previously held world record in the raw ( unequipped) bench press with 722 lb (327.5 kg) achieved on Ma ...
Blaine Sumner
Blaine Sumner (born June 22, 1987) is an American world champion powerlifter from Conifer, Colorado, currently residing in Gillette, Wyoming, United States.
Powerlifting
Blaine was the 2019 and 2016 ...
Ano Turtiainen
Ano Veli Samuel Turtiainen (25 August 1967 in Sääminki) is a Finnish former powerlifter and politician who served in the Parliament of Finland for the South-Eastern Finland constituency from 2019 to 2023. He is also founder and leader of Powe ...
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Berend Veneberg
Berend Veneberg (born 5 November 1963 in Den Ham) is a former strongman and powerlifter from the Netherlands. He finished 5th at the World's Strongest Man games in 1993, 9th in 1998, 6th in 1999, 1st at Europe's Strongest Man in 2000 and won Str ...
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Dave Waddington
Dave Waddington is a former powerlifter and strongman from Ohio, United States. Apart from his three appearances at the World's Strongest Man finals, he is also famed as the first man to ever break the 1000 lb barrier in the ...
Marshall White
Marshall White (born April 30, 1982) is an American professional strongman athlete.
Personal life
Born in Houston, Texas, White lived for a time in Port Angeles, Washington, and in Pagosa Springs, Colorado with his then-wife ...