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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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Lamar Gant
Lamar Gant became the first powerlifter in history to deadlift more than five times his own body weight, a pound-for-pound achievement that remains one of the most statistically extraordinary individual lifts in the sport's history relative to a competitor's own size. Standing just 4-foot-11 and competing in lighter weight classes, Gant's relative strength-to-bodyweight ratio in the deadlift specifically has never been matched by any other competitor in the sport's recorded history, making him the definitive pound-for-pound deadlift specialist of any era. Gant's technical deadlift form, adapted specifically to his shorter limb proportions, became a widely studied case study within powerlifting coaching circles for how body leverages and proportions can be optimized for maximum deadlift performance. His unmatched pound-for-pound deadlift record has made Gant one of the most frequently cited examples within powerlifting of genuinely extraordinary relative strength, and his specific achievement remains unbroken decades after he first set it.
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