Lamar Gant


Lamar Gant is an American world record-holding powerlifter. He competed with idiopathic scoliosis. He was inducted into the International Powerlifting Federation Hall of Fame in 1980.
Gant set his first world record in 1974 by deadlifting 524.5 pounds at a bodyweight of at the Flint Olympian Games. In 1985, he became the first person in human history to deadlift five times his own bodyweight - lifting at a bodyweight of. He holds the world records for deadlifting in both the 123- and 132-pound weight classes. His best lifts at 123 pounds are RAW bench press and deadlift; at 132 pounds are squat , RAW bench press, and deadlift.

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