Powerlifter Ray Williams Wins His seventh Uncooked Nationwide Title After Gritty Efficiency

Williams wore a lifting belt, knee sleeves, and wrist wraps for his prime back squat, only a lifting belt for his prime deadlift, and solely wrist wraps for his prime bench press. What would possibly make the athlete’s efficiency extra spectacular is that he completed the victory regardless of an obvious harm with restricted particulars on the character and severity.

On the time of this writing, it isn’t clear what Williams’ actual statistics on every of his greatest lifts had been. In keeping with the Instagram submit detailing his output, all that’s clear is the competitor recorded a 1,000-kilogram (2,204.6-pound) whole.

Williams’ seventh uncooked nationwide title follows in a protracted line of achievements.

He’s a five-time Worldwide Powerlifting Federation (IPF) World Champion (2014-2018) within the 120-kilogram weight class. In keeping with Open Powerlifting, he additionally holds the all-time uncooked squat World File with a carry of 490 kilograms (1,080.2 kilos) on the 2019 USAPL Arnold SBD Professional American.

As well as, Williams’ title is written all over the IPF record books. These accomplishments are as follows:

Ray Williams (+120KG) | IPF Uncooked World Data

• Squat: 477.5 kilograms (1,052.7 kilos)
• Deadlift: 398.5 kilograms (878.5 kilos)
• Whole: 1,105 kilograms (2,436.1 kilos)

Williams’ IPF uncooked squat World File has stood for roughly six years now. Although, it seems some youthful phenom powerlifters could be hot on his tail soon enough.