Last month, Sahyuri Lalime (Sahy) from Belgium smashed her first World Record at the European Open Classic Powerlifting Championship in Málaga, Spain! 💪🌱

She set a new World Record in the Squat for the M1 63kg division with an incredible 182.5kg lift – nearly three times her body weight! 😲🔥

Even more impressively, Sahy broke 11 records at the competition, including the M1 European record for total across all lifts. Absolute powerhouse!

A committed vegan for around ten years (and vegetarian for 12 before that), Sahy’s decision to stop eating animals stems from deep compassion:

“[It is] based purely on not wanting to kill animals. Having experienced the trauma of losing my mother when I was kid, I became very sensitive to death and didn’t want to take part in bringing that type of pain and suffering to others.”

🌟 Congratulations Sahy on this epic performance – we can't wait to see what you conquer next!

👉 Learn more: https://www.greatveganathletes.com/news/world-record-for-vegan-lifter-at-euro-championships/

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REAL SCIENCE, Not BRO SCIENCE 💪🌱

Bradie Crandall, aka Vegan Hercules, is a powerhouse in the USA powerlifting scene, Bradie has already reached international standards at a young age—all while fuelling his success on a vegan diet.

With a PhD in Chemical Engineering, Bradie takes a scientific approach to training and nutrition:

🧪 “I take a very scientific approach to my diet and training. That’s one big advantage I feel that I have over most powerlifters who tend to heavily rely on bro science.”

🔥 “People rarely give me a hard time about being vegan because I’m typically stronger than them. My best advice for a new vegan lifter? Get stronger than the critics and let your results speak for themselves.”

⚙️ “I view the human body as a mechanical object. This lens allows me to use my technical training as an engineer to take a calculated approach to optimizing athletic performance.”
Bradie is proving that plant-powered athletes can dominate in strength sports. Keep an eye on this rising star! 🌱🏋️‍♂️

👉Learn more: https://greatveganathletes.com/bradie-crandall-vegan-powerlifter/

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From Powerlifting to Strongwoman: this is Veronique Cormier's journey to a national Canadian record in the most iconic of strongman events – the Atlas Stone.

57kg lifter Veronique, quickly made a mark on powerlifting with a raw squat well over double bodyweight, a raw total over six times bodyweight and World Championship qualification.

Since then she’s added a national title in strongwoman.

Veronique has been training hard with the atlas stones, and was keen to work on the 100kg one – approaching double her weight. It wasn’t easy, although she went from being barely able to get it off the ground to lifting it over the bar in training.

The recent Canadian Nationals gave her a chance to try all aspects of her strength, followed by a record attempts session.

Admitting to a weakness in deadlifts she managed 9 x 300 lb to win that event, confident it would have been no reps a year ago. She also won a sandbag medley and atlas stone ladder to finish second overall.

As if that wasn’t enough, she then attempted the 220lb stone, and cleared the bar.

“I worked really hard on stones this prep from not getting the 220 stone more than a few inches off the ground to making it look so easy on the day,” Veronique told Great Vegan Athletes. “The announcers were convinced I would get 245. It’s not there yet but definitely the next goal.”

Amazing effort Veronique! 🌱💪

Read the full article here: https://www.greatveganathletes.com/news/from-powerlifting-to-strongwoman-leafys-journey-to-the-national-record/

Photo credit: @leafylifter

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