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Records

The heaviest lifts on record

The top of the dataset — raw, judged, one entry per lifter. The heaviest raw squat in it is 490.5 kg and the heaviest raw deadlift 492.5 kg. Everything here was passed by referees on a competition platform.

Squat

Men

#LifterLiftAt bodyweight
1Devonte Lewis490.5213.6
2Ray Williams490.0190.4
3Jesus Olivares478.5182.4
4Jezza Uepa470.0181.4
5Andrew Hause468.0132.8
6Craig Foster465.0166.0
7Colton Engelbrecht455.0125.3
8Daniel Bell455.0174.2
9Adrian Myers445.0146.6
10张延飞435.0135.7

Women

#LifterLiftAt bodyweight
1Sonita Muluh318.5139.3
2Tamara Walcott307.0138.5
3李硕305.099.8
4Brittany Schlater302.5131.1
5Merrylynn Etelei291.0146.6
6Bessie O'Brien290.0122.2
7Kristy Hawkins290.076.6
8Samantha Rice282.587.9
9Jewel Tasi280.0118.9
10Bonica Brown280.0141.0

Every weight class for the squat →

SOURCE·Judged competition results (OpenPowerlifting)·Top ten squats, one entry per lifter, raw only·REVIEWED JUL 2026

Bench press

Men

#LifterLiftAt bodyweight
1Julius Maddox355.0203.0
2Ove Lehto340.0160.7
3Markus Ahonen340.0119.9
4Kirill Sarychev335.0172.9
5Kenneth Sandvik330.0150.9
6Eric Spoto327.5143.1
7Thomas Davis325.0196.9
8Scot Mendelson324.3142.4
9James Henderson322.5177.0
10Johnnie Harris320.0139.9

Women

#LifterLiftAt bodyweight
1J. Allen210.087.3
2April Mathis207.5123.0
3C. George204.1110.0
4D. Young204.1101.6
5Miller197.3110.0
6K. Miller195.082.5
7Thompson183.7125.0
8Małgorzata Kopiec183.088.3
9Phillips182.5100.0
10Samantha DiBois181.4157.5

Every weight class for the bench press →

SOURCE·Judged competition results (OpenPowerlifting)·Top ten bench presss, one entry per lifter, raw only·REVIEWED JUL 2026

Deadlift

Men

#LifterLiftAt bodyweight
1Colton Engelbrecht492.5125.3
2Danny Grigsby487.5121.7
3Benedikt Magnússon460.4172.8
4Jamal Browner460.0109.4
5Krzysztof Wierzbicki456.0108.6
6Yury Belkin445.0103.0
7Fernando Arias445.0132.1
8Theo Maddox445.0139.3
9Andy Bolton437.5151.7
10Kenneth Cooper435.0137.1

Women

#LifterLiftAt bodyweight
1Samantha Rice297.587.9
2Tamara Walcott297.0138.5
3Brianny Terry293.085.7
4Aquinn Onuoha292.5129.9
5Natalie Laalaai290.0145.7
6Brittany Schlater289.0131.1
7NN285.093.7
8Chakera Ingram282.581.5
9Kristy Hawkins280.074.8
10Sara Schiff280.0118.5

Every weight class for the deadlift →

SOURCE·Judged competition results (OpenPowerlifting)·Top ten deadlifts, one entry per lifter, raw only·REVIEWED JUL 2026

Powerlifting total

Men

#LifterLiftAt bodyweight
1Colton Engelbrecht1,225.0125.3
2Jesus Olivares1,153.5182.4
3Devonte Lewis1,136.5213.6
4Andrew Hause1,135.0132.8
5Daniel Bell1,127.5174.2
6Kyle Kirvay1,125.0136.6
7Ray Williams1,112.5190.4
8Luke Nall1,090.0155.3
9Temur Samkharadze1,087.5160.8
10Fernando Arias1,082.5132.1

Women

#LifterLiftAt bodyweight
1Tamara Walcott759.0138.5
2Brittany Schlater756.5131.1
3Sonita Muluh751.0139.3
4Samantha Rice743.087.9
5李硕732.599.8
6Alexis Jones721.5137.8
7Kristy Hawkins720.074.8
8April Mathis705.3113.4
9Aquinn Onuoha700.0129.9
10Natalie Laalaai692.5145.6

Every weight class for the total →

SOURCE·Judged competition results (OpenPowerlifting)·Top ten totals, one entry per lifter, raw only·REVIEWED JUL 2026

What "record" means here

These are the heaviest lifts in this dataset, which covers 443 federations from 1964 onward. They are not the same thing as an official world record, which belongs to a particular federation under a particular rulebook and is only set at sanctioned events.

Only raw lifts are included, one entry per lifter so a single athlete cannot fill a top ten, and every figure comes from a result a referee passed. Lifters who share a name are numbered upstream; those numbers are stripped here for readability.

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