[tr8798]

Impressive but not record-setting or even really competitive in most cases. Powerlifting and Olympic lifting success depends on skeletal structure- for various lifts that's things like arm length, hip width, upper torso to lower torso proportions. These things count for and against you in various lifts and go to mechanical leverage advantage.

This accounts for the frequent success over the years of little people in the lightest weight classes and the similarity of champions' appearances.

To speak to just one lift, in general the narrower the hips, the stronger the person has to be to squat the same weight. What squat aspirants want is wide hips that transmit the power being generated up through the torso in a straight line.

Deadlift would-bes want short torsos and long arms, a mid-80s lefter named Lamar Gant being the clearest expression of this type of physique.

And so on and so forth. Bodybuilders want impossibly narrow hips accompanied by impossibly broad shoulders.

[solumunus]

I agree with this, and I should have mentioned structure.