Jim Williams (powerlifter)

James Talbot Williams, who lived from 25 February 1940 to 23 January 2007, was an American powerlifter who competed just before the formation of the International Powerlifting Federation. During the early 1970s he set bench press national and world records in the Amateur Athletic Union. On 9 November 1972 he bench pressed 675 pounds, with ace bandages on his elbows and without a bench shirt, and he was the first man to bench press 300 kilograms in competition.