Final up to date on March twenty fifth, 2025
The 2025 EPU European Classic Championships occurred on March 23, 2025, in Malaga, Spain. The Males’s 120KG class was a showcase for British powerlifter Nonso Chinye, who gained gold by a 35-kilogram margin over runner-up Nicolas Peyraud of France.
En path to his 965-kilogram whole, Chinye secured an Worldwide Powerlifting Federation (IPF) deadlift world document of 400 kilograms.
At simply 20 years outdated, Chinye remains to be a Junior lifter and, due to this fact, his document additionally stands because the Junior uncooked deadlift world document. Moreover, Chinye’s whole now stands because the IPF Junior world document and the third heaviest all-time.
Chinye’s world document deadlift could be seen within the video under, courtesy of his Instagram web page:
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2025 European Basic Championships Outcomes — Nonso Chinye, 120KG
- Squat
- 315 kilograms
- 340 kilograms
- 352.5 kilograms — Continental Junior Report
- Bench Press
- 197.5 kilograms
- 207.5 kilograms
- 212.5 kilograms
- Deadlift
- 350 kilograms
- 380 kilograms
- 400 kilogrmas — IPF World Report, IPF Junior World Report
- Complete — 965 kilograms — IPF Junior World Report
Chinye’s didn’t require a lot arrange upon taking the lifting platform with a world document weight on the bar. After a number of motions of his arms to rev up, Chinye hinged in his conventional stance to seize the barbell in a mixed grip.
Sporting solely his lifting belt and a few chalk dusted throughout his fingers and legs, Chinye ascended with the barbell in what may have been misconstrued as a warm-up elevate. The pull was as clean as butter with none indicators of a sticking level. Chinye wrote within the caption of his submit:
420 [kilograms] was there. RPE 7.5 to spherical off the day.
—Nonso Chinye
Chinye’s document surpassed the earlier world document deadlift held by Etienne El Chaer by 4 kilograms.
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Featured picture: @nojo.health on Instagram