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Di Pasquale is a multiple time national and world champion in the sport of powerlifting. Di Pasquale won the IPF World Powerlifting Championships in 1976, and the IPF World Games in 1981. [1] Di Pasquale was an eight-time Canadian champion, and two-time Pan American and North American champion.
From 1981 to the early 1990s, Francis earned the accolade of "Strongest Woman in History". She was the first woman in the world to bench press over 300 lb (140 kg). She broke over 40 world powerlifting records and was undefeated during her powerlifting career. She was inducted into the International Powerlifting Federation Hall of Fame in 1987.
Stan "The White Rhino" Efferding [1] (born November 6, 1967) is an American IFBB professional bodybuilder and a powerlifter competing in the Southern Powerlifting Federation (SPF). He held the all-time raw world powerlifting records in the 275-pound-class in the Total without knee wraps (w/o 2,226.6 lbs) and in the Squat without knee wraps (854 ...
Frederick C. Hatfield (October 21, 1942 – May 14, 2017), nicknamed Dr. Squat, was an American world champion powerlifter and PhD holder in sports sciences. [3] [4] He was also the co-founder and president of the International Sports Sciences Association, [5] an organization of fitness experts which certifies personal fitness trainers from around the world.
Iron Man is an American publication which discusses bodybuilding, weightlifting and powerlifting. It was founded in 1936 by two Alliance , Nebraska natives, Peary Rader and his wife, Mabel Rader. History
Becca Swanson started out in 1996 with the desire to be a bodybuilder, but ended up powerlifting. According to her, the larger and more muscular women had fallen out of favor in bodybuilding after a few shows. She was told that she was just too big for bodybuilding, which motivated her to take up powerlifting.
Powerlifting training differs from bodybuilding and weightlifting, with less focus on volume and hypertrophy than bodybuilding and less focus on power generation than weightlifting. [ 135 ] [ 136 ] Common set & rep schemes are based on a percentage of the lifter's 1RM (one rep maximum—meaning the most weight they are capable of lifting one time).
Orhii competed in his first powerlifting competition in 2015, and competed in bodybuilding in 2016. [1] In 2018, Orhii qualified for the IPF World Classic Powerlifting Championships, and competed in the open as a junior (23-years-old). He would squat an open world record of 298.5 kilograms, which would shortly be surpassed by Brett Gibbs. Orhii ...