Gabriel Peña has his sights set on the document books. Registration for the 2023 World Power Video games (WSG), set for September 15-17, 2023, on the Orange County Conference Heart in Orlando, FL, opened on March 15. The competition is a part of the Florida Match Expo and can collect some elite strongmen making an attempt world-class lifts.
Amongst these athletes is Peña, who took to his Instagram web page on March 16, 2023, to name his shot: he’ll try and set a brand new American deadlift document on the 2023 WSG.
I’m heading to Florida to carve my identify within the historical past books. September 15, the American deadlift document will fall on the 2023 World Power Video games.
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A money prize of $20,000 will probably be awarded to anybody who units a brand new American deadlift document, upping the stakes past only a rewrite of historical past for Peña. There are two American deadlift data to contemplate relying on the barbell used on the 2023 WSG.
Based on each Beginning Strongman and Power Outcomes, Jerry Pritchett is the present American deadlift document holder, because of his 467.7-kilogram (1,031-pound) pull on the 2017 Rogue Document Breakers occasion. Whereas that’s the heaviest recorded deadlift in competitors by an American strongman, it was carried out with an Elephant barbell, which has extra give than a typical Olympic barbell.
Per Strongman Outcomes, the heaviest deadlift in competitors by an American strongman on a typical barbell is 453.5 kilograms (999.8 kilos) by Evan Singleton on the 2021 World Deadlift Championships, received by Ivan Makarov. Of word, all strongman deadlifts for max reps are usually carried out outfitted, although there is no such thing as a separate document for uncooked versus outfitted lifts in strongman like there may be in powerlifting.
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Peña has lifted 1,000 kilos in coaching earlier than. A number of days after his medical withdrawal from the 2020 World’s Strongest Man (WSM) contest, Peña hit the fitness center and locked out 1,000 kilos whereas sporting lifting straps. If the occasion on the 2023 WSG makes use of a typical barbell, then Peña has proven that he’s a minimum of able to tying Singleton’s document.
Even when Peña hasn’t progressed his deadlift up to now three years, which is very unlikely, he would solely want so as to add a pound to that 2020 PR by September 2023. Given the circumstances, rewriting the historical past books doesn’t seem to be it will likely be a what-if however extra of a by-how-much for Peña in Florida.
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