Powerlifting is a sport where records are made to be broken. There’s a constant drive to smash old records and set new ones. That’s why we’ve rounded up the current all-time powerlifting world records that lifters are aspiring to beat.
The categories we’ve covered for men and women are:
- Bench Press
- Squat
- Deadlift
- Total
Both raw and equipped world records are shown. All recognized powerlifting federations are included, such as the IPF, USAPL, USPA, BPC, WPC, WRPF, and RPS.
For a comprehensive overview of powerlifting records by state, federation, and country, visit PowerliftingRecords.com.
All records on this page are sourced from PowerliftingRecords.com, which uses OpenPowerlifting.org data.
Table of Contents
- 1 Raw Powerlifting World Records
- 1.1 Raw Powerlifting Total World Records for Men
- 1.2 Raw Powerlifting Total World Records for Women
- 1.3 Raw Squat World Records for Men
- 1.4 Raw Squat World Records for Women
- 1.5 Raw Bench Press World Records for Men
- 1.6 Raw Bench Press World Records for Women
- 1.7 Raw Deadlift World Records for Men
- 1.8 Raw Deadlift World Records for Women
- 2 Equipped Powerlifting World Records
- 2.1 Equipped Powerlifting Total World Records for Men
- 2.2 Equipped Powerlifting Total World Records for Women
- 2.3 Equipped Squat World Records for Men
- 2.4 Equipped Squat World Records for Women
- 2.5 Equipped Bench Press World Records for Men
- 2.6 Equipped Bench Press World Records for Women
- 2.7 Equipped Deadlift World Records for Men
- 2.8 Equipped Deadlift World Records for Women
- 3 FAQs
Raw Powerlifting World Records
Below you’ll find the latest raw powerlifting records for men and women.
Raw Powerlifting Total World Records for Men
- Colton Engelbrecht: 2547 lbs (2026)
- Jesus Olivares: 2543 lbs (2025)
- Andrew Hause: 2502 lbs (2025)
- Daniel Bell: 2486 lbs (2020)
- Ray Williams: 2453 lbs (2019)
- Devonte Lewis: 2443 lbs (2025)
- Kyle Kirvay: 2431 lbs (2024)
- Luke Nall: 2403 lbs (2023)
- Temur Samkharadze: 2398 lbs (2024)
- Zac Meyers: 2376 lbs (2023)
Colton Engelbrecht is the current men’s raw total record holder with a 2,547 lb (1,155 kg) total, set in March 2026 at the WRPF Start 800 meet. It’s the heaviest raw total in powerlifting history, just ahead of Jesus Olivares‘ 2,543 lb total from 2025.
You can watch the record total here:
Raw Powerlifting Total World Records for Women
- Tamara Walcott: 1674 lbs (2025)
- Samantha Rice: 1638 lbs (2025)
- Brittany Schlater: 1626 lbs (2025)
- Sonita Muluh: 1622 lbs (2025)
- April Mathis: 1610 lbs (2011)
- Alexis Jones: 1591 lbs (2023)
- Kristy Hawkins: 1588 lbs (2025)
- Chakera Ingram: 1527 lbs (2018)
- Bradina Anae: 1521 lbs (2022)
- Natalie Laalaai: 1517 lbs (2025)
Tamara Walcott is the current women’s raw total world record holder with a 1,674 lb (759 kg) total, set in May 2025 at the USPC Battle of the Beasts. She squatted 677 lbs (307 kg), benched 342 lbs (155 kg), and deadlifted 655 lbs (297 kg).
We haven’t been able to find footage of the 2025 meet. If you know of a video, please send us a link.
Until then, here’s her 2022 American Pro performance, which set the previous record:
Raw Squat World Records for Men
- Ray Williams: 1081 lbs (2019)
- Jesus Olivares: 1055 lbs (2025)
- Andrew Hause: 1032 lbs (2025)
- Craig Foster: 1025 lbs (2022)
- Jezza Uepa: 1014 lbs (2017)
- Devonte Lewis: 1003 lbs (2025)
- Daniel Bell: 1003 lbs (2020)
- Adrian Myers: 981 lbs (2025)
- Zhang Yanfei: 959 lbs (2025)
- JP Price: 959 lbs (2016)
Ray Williams is the current men’s raw squat world record holder with a 1,081 lb squat.
You can see Ray Williams’ squat here:
Raw Squat World Records for Women
- Sonita Muluh: 701 lbs (2025)
- Tamara Walcott: 677 lbs (2025)
- Brittany Schlater: 651 lbs (2025)
- Merrylynn Etelei: 642 lbs (2024)
- Kristy Hawkins: 640 lbs (2025)
- Samantha Rice: 623 lbs (2025)
- Jewel Tasi: 618 lbs (2024)
- Amanda Torres: 618 lbs (2024)
- Bonica Brown: 618 lbs (2023)
- April Mathis: 615 lbs (2011)
Sonita Muluh is the current women’s raw squat world record holder with a 701 lb (318 kg) squat, set in March 2025 at the EPF European Open. She’s the first woman to squat over 700 lbs raw.
You can see this lift here:
Raw Bench Press World Records for Men
- Julius Maddox: 783 lbs (2021)
- Kirill Sarychev: 739 lbs (2015)
- Eric Spoto: 722 lbs (2013)
- Thomas Davis: 717 lbs (2021)
- Scot Mendelson: 715 lbs (2005)
- James Henderson: 711 lbs (1997)
- Johnnie Harris: 706 lbs (2020)
- Vladimir Kravtsov: 684 lbs (2013)
- Andrew Cooper: 676 lbs (2021)
- Jeremy Hoornstra: 675 lbs (2014)
Julius Maddox is the current men’s raw bench press world record holder with a 783 lb (355 kg) bench press.
You can see this lift here:
Raw Bench Press World Records for Women
- April Mathis: 458 lbs (2016)
- Małgorzata Kopiec: 404 lbs (2025)
- Samantha DiBois: 400 lbs (2016)
- Carina Davis: 397 lbs (2021)
- Jessica Springer: 392 lbs (2020)
- Alexis Jones: 381 lbs (2023)
- Tamara Walcott: 381 lbs (2022)
- Shannon Nash: 381 lbs (2017)
- Mahailya Reeves: 380 lbs (2022)
- Lyudmila Gaiduchenko: 375 lbs (2015)
April Mathis is the current women’s raw bench press world record holder with a 458 lb (207.5 kg) bench press.
Unfortunately, we are unable to find a video of this lift. If you know of one, please send us a link.
Until then, here’s an impressive 440 lb bench press from April. This was the previous record until she broke it with her 457 lb bench press in 2016.
Raw Deadlift World Records for Men
- Danny Grigsby: 1075 lbs (2022)
- Jamal Browner: 1014 lbs (2024)
- Krzysztof Wierzbicki: 1006 lbs (2025)
- Colton Engelbrecht: 992 lbs (2026)
- Theo Maddox: 981 lbs (2024)
- Yury Belkin: 981 lbs (2020)
- Fernando Arias: 970 lbs (2025)
- Benedikt Magnússon: 970 lbs (2005)
- Kenneth Cooper: 959 lbs (2024)
- Cailer Woolam: 954 lbs (2019)
Dan Grigsby is the current men’s raw deadlift world record holder with a 1,075 lb deadlift.
Here’s a video of this lift:
Raw Deadlift World Records for Women
- Samantha Rice: 656 lbs (2025)
- Tamara Walcott: 655 lbs (2025)
- Brianny Terry: 646 lbs (2024)
- Natalie Laalaai: 640 lbs (2025)
- Aquinn Onuoha: 635 lbs (2025)
- Chakera Ingram: 623 lbs (2018)
- Brittany Schlater: 618 lbs (2026)
- Kristy Hawkins: 618 lbs (2025)
- Sara Schiff: 618 lbs (2023)
- Lydia Hantke: 607 lbs (2025)
Samantha Rice is the current women’s raw deadlift world record holder with a 656 lb (297.5 kg) deadlift, set in December 2025 at RPS King and Queen 5. It edged out Tamara Walcott’s 655 lb pull by a single pound.
Here’s Samantha Rice setting the deadlift record:
Equipped Powerlifting World Records
Below you’ll find the latest equipped powerlifting records for men and women.
Equipped Powerlifting Total World Records for Men
- Dave Hoff: 3103 lbs (2019)
- Rodney Woodward: 3025 lbs (2025)
- Donnie Thompson: 3000 lbs (2011)
- Jonas Rantanen: 2954 lbs (2011)
- Kyle Shreve: 2920 lbs (2025)
- Bob Merkh: 2905 lbs (2022)
- Chris Della Fave: 2870 lbs (2022)
- AJ Roberts: 2855 lbs (2012)
- Bruce Mason: 2845 lbs (2021)
- Yevgen Yarymbash: 2844 lbs (2013)
Dave Hoff currently holds the men’s equipped total world record with a 3,103 lb total. He squatted 1,273 lbs, benched 1,047 lbs, and deadlifted 826 lbs.
Here is a video of all three lifts:
Equipped Powerlifting Total World Records for Women
- Leah Reichman: 2056 lbs (2023)
- Becca Swanson: 2051 lbs (2005)
- Deana Tollefson: 1896 lbs (2025)
- Crystal Tate: 1880 lbs (2019)
- Taylor Schaeffer: 1835 lbs (2025)
- Rochelle Dubbs: 1820 lbs (2025)
- Jordan Buchla: 1811 lbs (2025)
- Amber Hansen: 1805 lbs (2022)
- Laura Phelps-Stackhouse: 1800 lbs (2011)
- Mackenzie Tomasik: 1750 lbs (2026)
Leah Reichman is the current women’s equipped total world record holder with a 2,056 lb total. She squatted 954 lbs, benched 501 lbs, and deadlifted 600 lbs.
Here are her lifts from the record breaking performance:
Equipped Squat World Records for Men
- Nathan Baptist: 1312 lbs (2021)
- Brian Carroll: 1281 lbs (2020)
- Rodney Woodward: 1275 lbs (2025)
- Dave Hoff: 1273 lbs (2019)
- Jonas Rantanen: 1268 lbs (2011)
- Donnie Thompson: 1265 lbs (2011)
- Vladislav Alhazov: 1250 lbs (2008)
- Phillip Herndon: 1220 lbs (2024)
- Jeff Frank: 1218 lbs (2016)
- Joe Stein: 1215 lbs (2021)
Nathan Baptist is the current men’s equipped squat world record holder with a 1,312 lb squat.
Here’s a video of this lift:
Equipped Squat World Records for Women
- Leah Reichman: 954 lbs (2023)
- Jordan Buchla: 856 lbs (2025)
- Becca Swanson: 855 lbs (2005)
- Crystal Tate: 815 lbs (2019)
- Amber Hansen: 810 lbs (2023)
- Sheena Reed: 800 lbs (2026)
- Mackenzie Tomasik: 795 lbs (2026)
- Deana Tollefson: 791 lbs (2025)
- Katrina Bielomyza: 783 lbs (2025)
- Taylor Schaeffer: 780 lbs (2025)
Leah Reichman is the current women’s equipped squat world record holder with a 954 lb squat.
Here’s a video of this lift (and the others from that day’s performance):
Equipped Bench Press World Records for Men
- Jimmy Kolb: 1453 lbs (2025)
- Nikita Starostin: 1235 lbs (2024)
- Christopher Sutton: 1216 lbs (2024)
- Aleksandr Kostyanov: 1169 lbs (2026)
- Will Barotti: 1150 lbs (2022)
- Greg Powell: 1141 lbs (2023)
- Rich Putnam: 1135 lbs (2022)
- Mike Womack: 1132 lbs (2022)
- Bill Gillespie: 1130 lbs (2022)
- Tiny Meeker: 1125 lbs (2021)
Jimmy Kolb is the current men’s equipped bench press world record holder with a 1,453 lb (659 kg) bench press, set in June 2025 at the USPC Sonny Comly Memorial. This is also the heaviest single lift in powerlifting history.
We haven’t been able to find footage of the 1,453 lb lift yet. Here’s his 1,401 lb bench from 2023, the previous record:
Equipped Bench Press World Records for Women
- Ashleigh Hoeta: 700 lbs (2023)
- Rae-Ann Miller: 660 lbs (2023)
- Ekaterina Zaytseva: 651 lbs (2023)
- Katrina Bielomyza: 650 lbs (2023)
- Rochelle Dubbs: 645 lbs (2025)
- Amber Hansen: 615 lbs (2021)
- Emma Ylitalo-James: 607 lbs (2023)
- Kelly Womack: 601 lbs (2025)
- Becca Swanson: 601 lbs (2008)
- Shawna Mendelson: 565 lbs (2022)
Ashleigh Hoeta is the current women’s equipped bench press world record holder with a 700 lb (317.5 kg) bench press. She’s the first woman to bench 700 lbs in equipped competition.
Here’s a video of the lift:
Equipped Deadlift World Records for Men
- Colton Engelbrecht: 1036 lbs (2025)
- Andy Bolton: 1009 lbs (2009)
- Benedikt Magnússon: 976 lbs (2010)
- Yury Belkin: 970 lbs (2017)
- Konstantīns Konstantinovs: 948 lbs (2006)
- Fernando Arias: 943 lbs (2023)
- Konstantin Morozov: 932 lbs (2019)
- Garry Frank: 932 lbs (2002)
- Tibor Mészáros: 927 lbs (2004)
- Dave Richardson: 926 lbs (2024)
Colton Engelbrecht is the current men’s equipped deadlift world record holder with a 1,036 lb (470 kg) deadlift, set in 2025. Andy Bolton, the first man to deadlift over 1,000 lbs, now sits second at 1,009 lbs.
We haven’t found footage of Engelbrecht’s record pull. Here’s Andy Bolton’s 1,008 lb deadlift, the first 1,000-plus pull in history:
Equipped Deadlift World Records for Women
- Becca Swanson: 673 lbs (2005)
- Crystal Tate: 662 lbs (2022)
- Denise Herber: 643 lbs (2024)
- Samantha Rice: 642 lbs (2023)
- Brianny Terry: 642 lbs (2023)
- Sara Schiff: 641 lbs (2023)
- Leah Reichman: 635 lbs (2021)
- Jessica Springer: 630 lbs (2021)
- Sarah Rainbow: 623 lbs (2024)
- Jess McCallum: 618 lbs (2022)
Becca Swanson is the current women’s equipped deadlift world record holder with a 673 lb (305 kg) deadlift, set in 2005.
Unfortunately, we were not able to locate a video of this lift.
FAQs
Colton Engelbrecht holds the record for the largest men’s raw powerlifting total at 2,547 lbs (1,155 kg), set in 2026.
Tamara Walcott holds the record for the largest women’s raw powerlifting total at 1,674 lbs (759 kg), set in 2025.
Dave Hoff holds the record for the largest men’s equipped powerlifting total at 3,103 lbs, set in 2019.
Leah Reichman holds the record for the largest women’s equipped powerlifting total at 2,056 lbs, set in 2023.
