Larry Pacifico (born January 17, 1946) is an American former world champion

powerlifter Powerlifting is a competitive strength sport that consists of three attempts at maximal weight on three lifts: squat, bench press, and deadlift. As in the sport of Olympic weightlifting, it involves the athlete attempting a maximal weight singl ...

. Larry won nine straight IPF World Powerlifting Championships from 1971–1979. Larry won a total of 102 competitions and set 54 World Records during his powerlifting career. Larry is widely regarded as one of the greatest powerlifters of all time, and goes by the nickname "Mr. Powerlifting". Three-time

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winner and two-time IPF world champion

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once stated, "The first time I went to a powerlifting meet and saw Larry, I think he was probably six or seven on his World Championships and he was pretty much—how would you say?—a god in powerlifting. He could go to any class that he wanted to. He could pretty much lift whatever weight on the day he wanted to." Four-time IPF powerlifting champion and 1979 World's Strongest Man winner

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said of Larry, "I look at Larry, an idol to all of us here—nine time champion and Larry will always be the legend of all time to us." Larry was inducted into the

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Hall of Fame on June 28, 1998. Larry currently owns his own gym and is a personal trainer in Dayton, Ohio.

Best competition lifts

* Squat : 832 pounds *

Bench press The bench press or chest press is a weight training exercise where a person presses a weight upwards while lying horizontally on a weight training bench. The bench press is a Compound movements, compound movement, with the primary muscles involved ...

: 592 pounds (no bench shirt) *

Deadlift The deadlift is a strength training exercise in which a weight-loaded barbell is lifted off the ground to the level of the hips, with the torso perpendicular to the floor, before being placed back on the ground. It is one of the three powerlifting ...

: 771 pounds *Total : 2,061 pounds

Best exhibition lifts

*Squat : 885 pounds *Bench press : 611 pounds *Deadlift : 815 pounds *Push press : 440 pounds *Standing press : 315 pounds in 1968 * Snatch: 270 pounds in 1968 *

Clean and Jerk The clean and jerk is a composite of two weightlifting movements, most often performed with a barbell: the clean and the jerk. During the ''clean'', the lifter moves the barbell from the floor to a racked position across the deltoids, without rest ...

: 320 pounds in 1968

References

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