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Ed Coan
Ed Coan is widely regarded as the greatest powerlifter in the sport's history, having set more than 70 world records across his career and remaining the only lifter to hold world records in the squat, bench press, and deadlift simultaneously across multiple different weight classes. His pound-for-pound total, the combined weight lifted across all three competitive lifts relative to his own body weight, remains the statistical benchmark against which subsequent powerlifters across every weight class are measured, reflecting an unusual combination of relative and absolute strength. Coan's sustained dominance across more than two decades of competition, continuing to set world records well into his forties, established a level of career longevity in a sport that places extreme physical demands on the body that few competitors have matched. His combination of record-setting absolute strength and his unmatched pound-for-pound relative strength across an unusually long competitive career has made Coan the powerlifter most universally cited as the greatest in the sport's history.
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Jennifer Thompson
Jennifer Thompson set multiple world records in the raw bench press across several different weight classes, establishing herself as one of the most dominant female powerlifters in the sport's history across a competitive career spanning more than two decades. Her sustained excellence specifically in the bench press, continuing to set new personal and world records well into her forties, reflected remarkable technical consistency and continued strength development at an age when many strength athletes' performance typically begins to decline. Thompson's combination of powerlifting competition and her separate career as a competitive Olympic weightlifter earlier in her athletic life gave her cross-disciplinary strength sport experience that informed her later powerlifting-specific technical approach. Her multiple world records across different weight classes and her sustained multi-decade excellence specifically in the bench press have made Thompson one of the most statistically significant and enduringly dominant competitors in the history of women's powerlifting.
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