Andy Bolton

Andrew Bolton, known as Andy, is an English powerlifter and strongman from Dewsbury, Yorkshire, born on 22 January 1970. He won his first powerlifting competition in 1991 at the BAWLA Yorkshire Junior Championships and later competed in the WPO and WPC in both multi ply and single ply categories. In 2006 he became the first man to deadlift 1,000 lb, and he broke the equipped deadlift world record six times between 2003 and 2009, in a long duel with the Icelander Benedikt Magnusson, finishing with 457.5 kg. He also held the WPO equipped squat record of 550.5 kg and the equipped total record of 1,273 kg. He competed four times in strongman events, including the 2002 Arnold Strongman Classic, and in 2012 he published the deadlift training book Deadlift Dynamite with Pavel Tsatsouline.