Cees de Vreugd

Cees de Vreugd, also known as Kees de Vreugd, lived from 9 March 1952 to 7 October 1998 and was a butcher, strongman and powerlifter from Katwijk in the Netherlands. After playing soccer in his youth he began weightlifting late, at the age of 29 in 1981, started competing as a powerlifter in 1982 and won the Dutch National Championships in 1983. In 1985 he won the IPF World Powerlifting Championships in the over 125 kilogram class and became the first European to total 2,200 pounds, including a 927 pound squat. His later 1985 total of 1002.5 kilograms stood as the Dutch record for 32 years, and he finished third at the World's Strongest Man games that year.