Great Britain’s Inderraj Singh Dhillon altered history in the 120-kilogram category at the 2023 IPF World Classic Powerlifting Championships, which concluded on June 18, 2023, in St. Julian’s Malta. Dhillon’s seven-for-nine performance culminated in a bronze-medal-worthy total of 906 kilograms, which included a new IPF raw world record deadlift of 386 kilograms.
Tony Cliffe of Great Britain won the gold at 120-kilograms with a total of 952.5 kilograms. Runner-up Mohamed Sahad of Algeria scored a 925-kilogram total. Check out Dhillon’s IPF raw world record deadlift in the video below, courtesy of the IPF’s Instagram page:
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2023 IPF World Classic Championships Results — Inderraj Singh Dhillon, 120KG
Dhillon weighed in officially at 119.75 kilograms.
- Squat
- 320 kilograms (705.5 pounds)
- 340 kilograms (749.6 pounds)
345 kilograms (760.6 pounds)
- Bench Press
- 170 kilograms (374.8 pounds)
- 180 kilograms (396.8 pounds)
182.5 kilograms (402.3 pounds)
- Deadlift
- 345 kilograms (760.6 pounds)
- 375 kilograms (826.7 pounds)
- 386 kilograms (851 pounds) — IPF Raw World Record
- Total — 906 kilograms (1,997.4 pounds)
Dhillon’s new IPF raw deadlift world record exceeded the previous record by half a kilogram. The previous record deadlift was Canada’s Bryce Krawczyk‘s 385.5-kilogram pull from the 2021 IPF World Classic Powerlifting Championships.
Raw World Records at the 2023 IPF World Classic Championships
Other world records achieved at the 2023 IPF World Classic Championships can be seen below:
- Jonathan Cayco (93KG) Sets Two IPF Raw World Records at the 2023 IPF World Classic Championships
- Asein Enahoro (83KG) Scores IPF World Record Raw Deadlift of 370.5 Kilograms
- Timothy Monigatti (74KG) Sets IPF World Record Raw Squat of 283.5 Kilograms
- Amanda Lawrence (84KG) Sets IPF World Record Squat of 249 Kilograms
- Agata Sitko (76KG) Sets IPF World Record Raw Bench Press of 153 Kilograms
- Carl Johansson (74KG) Scores All-Time World Record Raw Deadlift of 328 Kilograms
- Brian Le (66KG) Sets New All-Time World Record Raw Deadlift of 300.5 Kilograms
- Carola Garra (63KG) Sets All-Time World Record Raw Total of 557.5 Kilograms
- Natalie Richards (57KG) Scores All-Time Raw World Record Total of 512.5 Kilograms
- Farhanna Farid (52KG) Scores All-Time World Record Raw Deadlift of 203 Kilograms
- Tiffany Chapon (47KG) Sets All-Time Raw Bench Press World Record of 99.5 Kilograms
- Heather Connor (47KG) Sets Raw Deadlift World Record of 200 Kilograms
- Anatolii Novopismennyi (105KG) Sets IPF Raw Squat and Total World Records at 2023 IPF World Classic Championships
Featured image: @theipf on Instagram
