Vadym Dovhanyuk

Vadym Dovhanyuk is a Ukrainian powerlifter born on 15 January 1987 in Volochysk, in the Khmelnytskyi Oblast. He took up powerlifting at about fifteen in a small gym run by the Motor Sich plant in his home town, and in 2004 travelled to the first World Cup, held in Pretoria, where he became world champion. Over the following years he won world titles at sub-junior, junior and open level, and he is described as an eleven-time world champion who also won the World Games in Colombia in 2013, setting two world records in the bench press there. His listed personal bests are a 410 kg squat, a 335.5 kg bench press, a 325 kg deadlift and a 1050.5 kg total. For the 2013 victory he received the title of Honored Master of Sports and the Order of Merit, third class. He graduated in physical culture and sport from Kamianets-Podilskyi Ivan Ohiienko National University in 2011.