Becca Swanson

Rebecca Swanson, known as Becca, is an American powerlifter, strongwoman and former professional wrestler, born on 20 November 1973 in Papillion, Nebraska. She graduated in mechanical engineering from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln in 1998, started out in 1996 wanting to be a bodybuilder, and was told she was too big for the sport, which pushed her into powerlifting. She broke multiple women's powerlifting world records, including the heaviest squat, bench press, deadlift and total, and was the first woman known to total over 2,000 pounds in a meet. She began competing in strongwoman contests in 2002, and as a professional wrestler for Harley Race's World League Wrestling she won the WLW Ladies Championship in 2009. She is regarded as the strongest woman to have ever lived.