Edward Ignatius "Ed" Coan (born July 24, 1963) is an Americanpowerlifter. With multiple world championships and 71 world records[1][2][3] he is widely regarded throughout the powerlifting world as the greatest powerlifter of all time.[2][4][5]
Coan started out as a skinny kid being picked on at school, and decided to take up bodybuilding in his basement using old iso-kinetic cord machines. He eventually moved on to an Olympic weightlifting set owned by a friend, guided by the exercise instructions in Arnold Schwarzenegger's book: Education of a Bodybuilder.
He got a membership at the Chicago Health Club and after seeing Bill Kazmaier, started powerlifting with a friend and within six months, squatted 500lb (227kg).[7]
Powerlifting career
During 1991 Senior Nationals, he became the lightest person to cross the 2,400lb (1,089kg) barrier in the powerlifting total (a sum of three lifts: squat, bench, and deadlift). In 1998 World Championships, he set an all-time powerlifting record total at 2,463lb (1,117kg), in the 110kg weight class.
Coan's best total in a drug tested international competition is 2,282lb (1,035kg) in the 100kg weight class at the 1994 IPF Senior World Championships in South Africa,[8] establishing a new world record at the time. Although serving a lifetime ban from the IPF for doping, Coan is among the people still acknowledged and regarded a legend in the world of powerlifting and spends much of his time mentoring young lifters coming into the sport.[5]
Coan has failed drug testing through the IPF three times. He was temporarily suspended in 1985 for the use of Deca-Durabolin, an anabolic steroid.[11]
In 1989, he was suspended due to a positive drug test.[11]
In 1996, at the IPF Men's Open World Championships in Salzburg, Austria, he tested positive again and was issued a lifetime ban from the IPF.[12] Because this positive drug test occurred in a competition in which he placed first, his name and results have been retroactively removed from the 1996 results. Coan is now suspended from IPF for life.[13]
In 2016, the IPF declared that due to Coan's suspension participating in his training seminars is a violation of WADA regulations and thus prohibited.[14]
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