Benedikt Magnússon

Benedikt Magnússon, known as Benni, was born on 4 June 1983 and is an Icelandic strongman and powerlifter. He held the raw deadlift world record from 2011 to 2022 with 460.4 kilograms, which remains the heaviest raw deadlift ever done in the conventional stance, and he is widely regarded as one of the greatest deadlifters of all time. He also held for 15 years the record for the heaviest raw conventional deadlift ever performed within a full meet, at 442.5 kilograms, and he set the world record for the heaviest strongman deadlift in 2014 with 461 kilograms, which he briefly shared at 465 kilograms in 2016.