500 kilograms, a Half Tonne, over 1100lbs. Enjoy the Giants Live roaming camera - an unedited single shot of the greatest lift in history.
Eddie “The Beast” Hall promised a 500kg lift after breaking the WR in Leeds in 2015 pulling just 463kg that day to be the best ever at that point. Move forward 12 months and the Beast and Jerry Pritchet as well as Benni Magnusson all did 465kg at the Giants Live contest. What weight do they go for next - Eddie Hall called for 500kg and the others agreed. Hall in the end was the only one of the three to finish the lift off and make history as the first halftone weightlifter. At that point in time there were only three men over 1000lbs and jerry Pritchett became the fourth over the 1000lbs mark.
Eddie had promised the lift would go up, but many thought it no more than hyope by Hall and Giants Live who staged the contest and got in a record 11,000 strong crowd at the First Direct Arena.
The 2016 World Deadlift Championships were certainly memorable as Hall did the famous 500kg and collapsed. The other two men in the running got the weight off of the floor but couldn’t finish it off - in Pritchett’s case it was a hamstring injury.
Now both return to try and take that crown of Work;d’s Greatest deadlifted off of Hall and do the 501kg.
There are 15 men who will try and take Hall’s WR in Wembley on July 6th, 2019.
Giantsd Live have stated that this may be the last edition of the WDC at the SSE Arena. The Giants Live contest that features the return of the WDC - World Deadlift Championships - features 4 other strongman events and the line up includes WSM Martins Licis too.
