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Weight Lifting Records

Check out this graphic of powerlifting records because even if you can't bench press or squat over 1,000 lbs it's still cool to aspire to some of these bench press records and squat records, right? Or.... at the very least it's cool to aspire to aspire to some of these world weight training records as we stretch out on our couches and pop our popcorn...

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Countries with the most Olympic medals in male and female weight lifting since 2000:

Croatia

Men: 1

Women: 0

Belarus

Men: 5

Women: 1

Ukraine

Men: 0

Women: 1

South Korea

Men: 0

Women: 3

China

Men: 2

Women: 18

Thailand

Men: 0

Women: 1

Bolgaria

Men: 4

Women: 0

Iran

Men: 3

Women: 0

Us Men’s Nationals – Snatch Lift

Name	Jim Schubert	Kevin Dittler	Dean Goad	Joel Lackey	Al Reed
Location	Cleveland, OH	Mesa, AZ	Newman, GA	Marietta, GA	Spanaway, WA
Weight Class	77	85	94	105	105+
Lbs	264.5	286.6	319.7	330.7	339.5
KGs	120.0	130.0	145.0	150.0	154.0

Us Women’s Nationals – Snatch Lift

Name	Jacquelynn Berube	Carrie Boudreau	Amorkor Ollennuking	Arlys Maxwell	Inga Denunzio
Location	Colorado Springs, CO	Savannah, GA	Lee’s Summit, MO	Seattle, WA	Scarsdale, NY
Weight Class	58	80	69	75	75+
Lbs	196.2	176.4	165.3	192.9	182.9
KGs	89.0	80.0	75.0	87.5	83.0

In 2004 Gene Rychlak became the first man to press over 1000 lbs.

The most popular form of squatting is parallel squat.

David Huxley pulled a Boeing 747-400, weighing 184 tons, a distance of 298.5 ft in 1 minute and 27.7 seconds.

All Time Historical Men’s Power Lifting World Records for the Squat:

Name	Nationality	Body Weight (LBS)	Squat (KG)	Squat (LB)
Andrzej Stanaszek	Poland	114	300.5	662.5
Andrzej Stanaszek	Poland	123	292.5	644.9
Mangnus Karlsson	Sweden	132	320.0	705.5
Thomas J. Hoerner	U.S.A.	148	365.0	804.7
Al Caslow	U.S.A.	165	402.5	887.4
Michael Cartinian	U.S.A.	181	421.8	930.0
Shaun Frankl	U.S.A.	198	478.5	1055.0
Sam Byrd	U.S.A.	220	499.0	1100.0
Chuck Vogelpohl	U.S.A.	242	517.1	1140.0

All Time Historical Men’s Power Lifting World Records for Bench Press:

Name	Nationality	Body Weight (Lbs)	Bench Press (KG)	Bench Press (LB)
Andrzej Stanaszek	Poland	114	182.5	402.3
Anton Kraft	Denmark	123	210.0	463.0
Ayrat Zakiyev	Russia	132	225.5	490.5
Kevin Harmon	USA	148	274.4	605.0
Joe Mazza	USA	165	319.8	705.0
Jason Fry	USA	181	340.2	750.0
Sawn Frankl	USA	198	385.6	850.0
Jason Coker	USA	220	410.0	903.9
Rob Luyando	USA	242	410.5	905.0
Scot Mendelson	USA	275	487.6	1030.7
Ryan Kennelly	USA	308	487.6	1075.0

The Statue of Liberty, which weighs 54.31 million lbs (24,634 tons), is officially the world’s heaviest statue

The weights used in Powerlifting range from 2.5 Kilograms to 25 Kilograms. They are color coded by weight.

OK, so you may not necessarily be setting any world weight lifting records any time soon but why not set some personal records or gym records?

Start one of our workout plans and see how you stack up against all of the other site users by comparing your weight training statistics on each individual one of our exercise pages!