William Kazmaier is an American former world champion powerlifter, world champion strongman and professional wrestler. During the 1970s and 1980s, he set numerous powerlifting and strongman world records, and won two International Powerlifting Federation (IPF) World Championships and three World's Strongest Man titles. In the 1980s, Kazmaier became famous for his claim to be "the strongest man who ever lived" by equaling and surpassing spectacular and versatile feats of strength of famous strongmen of the 20th century. He is widely considered to be one of the all-time greatest competitors in strength competitions and was inducted into the International Sports Hall of Fame in 2017.
Bench press world records are the international records in bench press across the years, regardless of weight class or governing organization, for bench pressing on the back without using a bridge technique.
Chen Wei-ling is a Taiwanese Olympic weightlifter and powerlifter.
John Haack is an American powerlifter and chemist. Haack is considered one of the greatest powerlifters of all time, arguably better than Ed Coan, along with being the greatest pound-for-pound powerlifter of the modern age. Haack is a multiple all-time world record-holder in multiple weight classes, and is considered the best in the world. He is the current world record holder in the raw 90 and 100 kilogram weight class.
Maximina Uepa is a weightlifter from Nauru. She won the bronze medal in the women's 76 kg event at the 2022 Commonwealth Games held in Birmingham, England. She is the current Nauruan women's record-holder in the 71 kg category for overall, snatch and clean and jerk.
Jesus Olivares is an American powerlifter. He is the reigning world champion at the IPF Classic Powerlifting Championships in the 120+ kilogram weight class, winning four competitions.
Agata Sitko is a Polish heavyweight powerlifter, competing in the IPF. Despite being a junior, she has won the World Games in 2022 as a Heavyweight, the 2024 SBD Sheffield Powerlifting Championships, and has won the IPF World Equipped Championships in 2021, as well as the World Classic Championships in 2024.
Heather Connor is an American powerlifter, competing in the 47 kilogram weight class. She is a 2-time IPF world champion and 6-time national champion.
Krzysztof Wierzbicki is a Polish powerlifter. Wierzbicki has won 5 gold medals at the World Classic Championships and 2 gold medals at the European Classic (raw) Championships in the IPF. Wierzbicki has also took part in the World Games in 2017, where he finished in 5th place.
Emil Norling is a Swedish powerlifter. Norling has won 1 gold and two silver medals at the world classic championships and 5 gold medals at the European classic (raw) championships in the IPF. Norling became the first Swede to earn first place in all three weights, becoming International Powerlifting Federation champion of the 2019 Junior World Classic Powerlifting Championships.
Dariusz Wszoła is a Polish powerlifter. Wszoła has won 3 gold medals at the world championships and 12 gold medals at the European championships in the IPF. In total he won 38 medals of any colour at classic or equipped powerlifting senior championships. In addition he has got a plenty of medals from World and European Bench Press Championships. He also took part in 4 editions of the World Games and won bronze medal at the 2005 World Games.
Kjell Egil Bakkelund is a Norwegian powerlifter. Bakkelund has won 5 gold medals at the world championships and 7 gold medals at the European championships in the IPF. He is also two time World Games medallist, winning a gold medal at the 2022 World Games in Birmingham and silver medal in 2013 World Games in Cali.
Antti Savolainen is a Finnish powerlifter. Savolainen has won 1 gold medal at the World Classic Championships and 5 gold medals at the European Championships in the IPF. In total he won 17 medals in world & continental powerlifting Senior Championships. He also took part in the 2017 World Games in Wrocław, where he finished 6th in lightweight category. In 2023, Savolainen won gold at the European Powerlifting Federation Equipped Championships in 74 kg.
Temur Samkharadze is a Georgian powerlifter. He is current world silver medallist in 120+ category. He has also won two gold medals at the European classic (raw) championships in the IPF.
Siim Rast is an Estonian classic powerlifter. Rast is two time European champion in 120+ kg category. He also won one silver and one bronze medal at the World classic (raw) championships in the IPF.
Panagiotis Tarinidis is a French classic powerlifter competing in -66 kg category. Tarinidis is two time world champion and two time European champion.
Eddie Berglund is a Swedish powerlifter. Berglund has won gold medal at the 2022 world classic championships and 3 gold medals at the European classic (raw) championships in the IPF.
Hassan El Belghiti is a French powerlifter. El Belghiti is one time world champion and eight times European champion. In total he won 30 medals of any colour at both world & European championships. He also took part in 5 editions of The World Games winning silver in 2017 and two bronzes in 2009 and 2022.
Russel Orhii is an American powerlifter, competing in the 83 kilogram weight class. He is a 2-time IPF World Champion and 6-time National champion.
Taylor Atwood is an American powerlifter. He is a 3-time IPF World Champion and has held multiple world records in the 74 kilogram weight class.
