Lamar Gant

Lamar Gant is an American former powerlifter born in 1957 who competed despite having idiopathic scoliosis. He set his first world record in 1974, deadlifting 524.5 pounds at a bodyweight of 123 pounds at the Flint Olympian Games. In 1985 he became the first person in history to deadlift five times his own bodyweight, lifting 661 pounds at a bodyweight of 132 pounds. He holds the world records for deadlifting in both the 123 and 132 pound weight classes, and he was inducted into the International Powerlifting Federation Hall of Fame in 1980.