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 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.
William Kazmaier is an American former world champion powerlifter, world champion strongman and professional wrestler. During his illustrious career, he set over 40 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 greatest strength athletes of all-time, 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.
Sergey Alexeyevich Fedosienko 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.
Jarosław Olech is a Polish powerlifter.
Matthew Yap Zhe Ren, 叶哲仁 is a Singaporean Powerlifter & Coach, a 4-time Asian Champion and a World Silver medallist. He has broken 4 World records, 13 Asian records and 44 National records. He has also coached his team to several victories on the international stage.
Listed below are the progressions of 7 deadlift world records across powerlifting, strongman and armlifting, and ultimately, the all-time progression across all strength sports.
Ana Rosa Castellain is a Brazilian powerlifter, seven-time world champion. She became the main Brazilian athlete active in the country after originally being inducted into the IPF Hall of Fame. She currently resides and trains in the city of Garopaba on the coast of Santa Catarina.
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.
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.
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.
Jezza Uepa is a Nauruan powerlifter. Uepa has won gold medal at the 2019 World Classic Powerlifting Championships in 120+ category. In his collection from world championships he has got also two silver and one bronze medal. He also won a bronze medal at the 2011 Pacific Games in 120+ kg category. Following the 2019 World Powerlifting Championship in Sweden, Uepa was crowned as the World's Strongest Man. In 2023, Uepa has squated 470 kg at Brisbane Open. The same year, he lifted 420 kg at the IPF World Classic Powerlifting Championships which were held at Calgary, Canada. During the Oceania Classic Powerlifting & Bench Press Championship which was held at Christchurch, New Zealand, Uepa lifted has 455 kg raw.
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.
Panagiotis Tarinidis is a French powerlifter competing in the raw 66 kilogram 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 Tiza 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.
Bonica Lough is an American powerlifter competing in the IPF. She is a World Games champion, a 4-time Equipped World Champion, a 2-time Sub-Junior Equipped World Champion, and a 7-time Classic World Champion, and she has held multiple world records in each division.
