Andy Bolton


Andrew "Andy" Bolton is an English powerlifter and strongman who was born in Dewsbury, Yorkshire.

Career

Bolton won his first powerlifting competition in 1991 when he was twenty-one years of age, at a local powerlifting event called the BAWLA Yorkshire Junior Championships. Bolton has since competed in the WPO/WPC. He is the current World Powerlifting Organization "world record holder" in the total. Bolton also holds the current WPO world records in the squat and was the previous holder of the deadlift, and was the first to demonstrate a deadlift of over a thousand pounds.
Bolton has also competed in strongman contests. His strongman accomplishments include placing fifth in the 2002 Arnold Strongman Classic.
Powerlifting official competition records:
equipped
raw
Bolton is best known for being the first man to lift a 1,000 lb. deadlift in a powerlifting competition. Bolton appeared in October 2010 at Elizabethtown High School at "The Night of the Living Dead" deadlift competition where he deadlifted 964.5 lbs raw in only a pair of pants and a striking pair of socks.
In 2012, Bolton published a deadlift training book Deadlift Dynamite in collaboration with Pavel Tsatsouline.