Carl Yngvar Christensen (NOR) Writes IPF history!
SOFIA. The young lifter (24) Carl Yngvar Christensen from Norway, who won last year the silver medal in the super heavyweight division at the powerlifting events during The World Games in Cali set a milestone in the history of powerlifting with an incredible total of 1200kg.
He achieved this amazing total at the European Powerlifting Championships in Sofia/Bulgaria last weekend. The basis for the first total of 1200kg he set in the squat with a huge new world record of 485kg! In the second discipline - the bench press - he pressed 337,5kg and in the final discipline the deadlift, he lifted 377,5kg.
As Carl Yngvar Christensen is the first lifter in the IPF with this unbelievable 3-lift world record of 1200kg he wrote history in the sport of powerlifting.