Vitaliy Ponomarenko

Vitaliy Ponomarenko, born on 18 March 1974 and died on 5 February 2008, was a Ukrainian powerlifting champion. He weighed 220 pounds and, at the time of his death, still held the second highest bench press on record, a lift of 782 pounds. He died on 5 February 2008 of a heart condition. The English Wikipedia article is brief and the Ukrainian powerlifting hall of fame page it points to is archived, so this entry records the facts that article states and leaves his meets, federations and full competition record to be sourced from independent pages.