Mike Hall (powerlifter)

Michael Hall, born on 3 October 1956, is a retired American powerlifter best known as a pioneer of the drug-free movement in the sport. He is considered the first African American super heavyweight powerlifter to win a World Powerlifting Championship, and he set numerous American Drug Free Powerlifting Association, American and national records in all three lifts and the total. He was the first super heavyweight to win both the IPF and the WDFPF world championships, and at the 1987 IPF World Championships he became the first American lifter to squat 900 pounds and to break the 2200 pound total under drug-tested conditions. He has been widely honoured as an anti-drug role model in the United States.