Swedish powerlifting phenomenon Isabella von Weissenberg is continuing her conquest of the sport. The twenty-seven-year-old just unofficially broke the IPF world squat record in the -72kg weight class with a mammoth 202.5 kilograms (446.4 pounds).
Take a look at the video she posted to her Instagram below — the speed at which she made an unofficial world record is insane.
Casual single at 202.5kg /445.3lbs @8. AND AN ALL TIME PB.
Joke aside though, NOT so casual. The attentive viewer will see that I am SHAKING before the lift begins 😂 But fact remains, speed was good and it felt easy.
Most difficult thing today was admitting that the previous single at 200kg was actually RPE 7, because you know, it still feels a little cray cray to be moving these weights around.
If she made this lift on the platform, she’d be breaking the current world record of 200 kilograms, which she holds herself. (Note that one year ago, she held the record of 192.5kg.) Von Weissenberg made the 200-kilogram (441-pound) raw lift at this year’s Arnold Classic barely a month ago.
It’s noteworthy that she made this lift again two weeks ago, and the difference in speed is seriously mindblowing.
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Naturally, she also held the previous record of 196.5 kilograms, but we’ll never forget the intense squat battle that took place at the IPF World Championships last June, when the record was broken three times as she and Brazilian athlete Ana Castellain traded squats. Watch a battle for the ages here.
While her specialty is the squat, she also holds the European deadlift record with 215 kilograms (474 pounds), which she also made at the recent Arnold Classic. This lift also earned her a European record total of 512.5kg (1,130 lb). A far cry from Kimberly Walford‘s 540kg IPF world record total, but extremely impressive nonetheless.
We understand that she’s currently trying to diet down to compete in the -63kg class and while that will likely come with a loss in strength, those -63kg records should be worried.
Featured image via @ivweissenberg on Instagram.