Mark Henry is a famous wrestling fighter, a past winner at two Olympic weightlifting competitions. Also, his achievements include incredible power indicators in such a sport as powerlifting.
Biography
The future athlete was born in 1971 in the Texas city of the United States. The boy's family was distinguished by people who were overweight and tall. Since childhood, Mark was distinguished by a strong physique, closer to the senior classes he surpassed most of his peers in terms of height and weight.
Even when he was in school, the teenager had the opportunity to watch live the performance of professional wrestlers. Then an unpleasant embarrassment happened to him: the young athlete wanted to get an autograph from one of the speakers, but stumbled right at the feet of the fighter. As a result, he sloppily threw the kid into the crowd of observers.
Having received a secondary education, the young man decided to start professional sports: he tried in every possible way to increase strength indicators in powerlifting, weightlifting. In 1992, he first went to the Barcelona Olympic Games as a participant in the super heavyweight, weightlifting discipline. Then the guy managed to get a gold medal, he raised a record weight at that time.
After 4 years, Henry took part in the Summer Olympic Games and took 14th place. In addition to these achievements, he participated in many small weightlifting tournaments, where he often became both second and third.
Strength indicators and parameters Mark Henry
Mark is different in that at the time he managed to become the only person on the planet who was able to achieve world records in both weightlifting and powerlifting. As for the weight of a strong man, he averages 191 kg and a height of 193. The athlete managed to set a world record for classic squats with a barbell - he crouched 430 kilograms without any professional equipment.
