Shane Hamman

Shane Hamman is an American Olympic weightlifter and powerlifter born on 20 June 1972 in Oklahoma City and raised in Mustang, Oklahoma. He grew strong lifting pallets of produce for his father fruit market and began as a powerlifter for the International Powerlifting Federation, finishing third at the 1994 IPF World Championships and second in 1995. His equipped squat of 457.5 kg at the 1996 USPF National Championships stood as the world record until 2012. After watching the 1996 Olympics he switched to Olympic weightlifting, won all nine American Senior National Championships he entered from 1997 to 2005, and finished seventh at the 2004 Olympics with a total of 430 kg. He later spoke at schools for Rachel Challenge and worked as an announcer for NBC.