Tag: Top Athletes
Mike O’Hearn Joins Breon Ansley’s Quad Training During His 2024 Arnold Classic Prep
On March 1-3, 2024, the Greater Columbus Convention Center in Columbus, OH, will host the 2024 Arnold Classic as part of the Arnold Sports Festival. Winning the Arnold Classic is a gigantic momentum-builder for the 2024 Olympia in October. The Classic Physique will award its champion $30,000 in prize money and the coveted Arnold Trophy. Two-time Classic Physique…
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Ri Song Gum (49KG) Sets Clean & Jerk and Total World Records at 2024 Asian Weightlifting Championships
The Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK or PRK) produces some of the best weightlifters in the world. Case in point: One day after 45-kilogram Won Hyon Sim set her class’ first-ever world records at the 2024 Asian Weightlifting Championships (AWC), 49-kilo Ri Song Gum continued the trend by setting records of her own. Gum set a clean…
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Weightlifter Won Hyon Sim Sets First-Ever World Records in 45-Kilogram Division
Tiny, but mighty; on Saturday, Feb. 3, 2024, weightlifter Won Hyon Sim made history in Tashkent, Uzbekistan. The city is hosting the 2024 Asian Weightlifting Championships (AWC) this year from Feb. 3 to 10, one of the final major competitions before the 2024 Olympic Games. Kicking off the competition in spectacular fashion, 45-kilogram Sim set inaugural world records…
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“Ramon Lit a Fire Under My Ass” — Chris Bumstead Returns to Training for 2024 Mr. Olympia
“[Ramon] is a maniac…” Chris Bumstead knows that the stakes are higher than ever in 2024. After several life-changing events in the back half of 2023 — winning a fifth Mr. Olympia Classic Physique title, tearing his lat just weeks out from the biggest bodybuilding show of the year, and announcing that he’ll soon be a father —…
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Nick Walker Will Enter the 2024 New York Pro Bodybuilding Show
IFBB Pro League bodybuilder and 2021 Arnold Classic champion Nick Walker spent the end of 2023 and beginning of 2024 recovering from a hamstring injury that kept him out of the 2023 Mr. Olympia contest in Orlando, FL, won by Derek Lunsford. Walker’s fans have yearned for his return to the competition stage, thereby resuming his quest for the Sandow Trophy. Walker…
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Haley Adams Will Compete in the 2024 CrossFit Season
The 2024 CrossFit season kicks off on Feb. 29, 2024, via workout 24.1, the first of three workouts comprising the 2024 CrossFit Open. Among those competing are the reigning Fittest on Earth® Laura Horvath and Jeffrey Adler, two-time Fittest Man on Earth® Justin Medeiros, and the return of the winningest Individual CrossFit athlete of all time, Tia-Clair Toomey-Orr….
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Amanda Lawrence (84KG) Raw Squats 11 Kilograms Over World Record in 2024 Sheffield Prep
With preparation nearly complete for the 2024 Sheffield Powerlifting Championships (2024 Sheffield), Amanda Lawrence has been hitting record-breaking numbers in training. If she can do the same on competition day, she will score a huge cash payout at the UK’s big money meets at City Hall, Sheffield, UK, on Feb. 10, 2024. Lawrence has a long history of breaking records in…
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What Fergus Crawley’s Training for an Ultramarathon Looks Like
Hybrid athlete Fergus Crawley is known for his strength and endurance quests. He’s run a sub-five-minute mile after squatting 500 pounds and completed a sub-12-hour Ironman after logging a 1,200-pound total in a powerlifting meet. Crawley intends to improve upon that feat by running a 250-kilometer ultramarathon while remaining capable of scoring a 600-kilogram powerlifting total. It’s not…
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What Training for an Ultramarathon Looks Like
Hybrid athlete Fergus Crawley is known for his strength and endurance quests. He’s run a sub-five-minute mile after squatting 500 pounds and completed a sub-12-hour Ironman after logging a 1,200-pound total in a powerlifting meet. Crawley intends to improve upon that feat by running a 250-kilometer ultramarathon while remaining capable of scoring a 600-kilogram powerlifting total. It’s not…
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Tony Cliffe (120KG) Bench Presses 2.5 Kilograms Over the IPF World Record
UK powerlifter Tony Cliffe is a two-time International Powerlifting Federation (IPF) Classic World Champion in the 120-kilogram class. He won in Helsingborg, Sweden, in 2019 and again in Malta in 2023. In between those championships, Cliffe switched focus to single-ply equipped lifting and bronzed at the 2022 World Games in Birmingham, Alabama. In addition to winning a second world title in Malta, Cliffe qualified for…
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