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Kaiwaka’s Bernie Hall has achieved his dream of breaking the world deadlift record for his age and weight, though unfortunately it won’t be officially recognised as such.
The 48-year-old lifted 283kg at the IPLNZ New Zealand Powerlifting League Tombstone event in Papakura last month, which was 7kg heavier than his previous best lift in June and a new official national record.
Hall said the winning lift would have been an IPL drug tested world record, as the existing world record stands at 275kg, but as there was no world referee present or drug testing facilities on site, and drug testing was prohibitively expensive anyway, it could never be an official record.
“But I’m still really stoked and it was a great way to end the year,” he said.
“It was still a new IPLNZ national record – the existing one was 270kg – and a new all-time NZ Deadlift Record.”
Hall added that it was “a grinder” of a lift, which took him three attempts to crack the winning weight, but he’s already aiming at his next competition in March, TA Slay in Te Awamutu, where he’s aiming to lift 286kg.
Hall’s world ranking is now 107th in his Masters category.
