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Place of Birth: Iceland
About Benedikt Magnússon
- Benedikt Magnússon (born June 4, 1983) is an Icelandic strongman and powerlifter.
- He holds the raw deadlift world record with a lift of 460.4 kg (1,015 lb) in 2011.
- He also set the world record for the heaviest strongman deadlift of 461 kg (1,016 lb) in 2014, which stood until Eddie Hall lifted 462 kg (1,019 lb) the next year.
- Hall later increased the latter record to 500 kg (1,102 lb) in 2016.
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