Champion Powerlifter Russel Orhii to Transfer to the 93KG Division

The highest 83KG powerlifter within the Worldwide Powerlifting Federation (IPF), Russel Orhii, left little doubt of his standing atop the division following the 2025 Sheffield Powerlifting Championships.

Orhii achieved a fourth-place general end in England. That doesn’t inform the entire story given the competition’s scoring system of evaluating athletes by their totals as a share of their respective division’s world file. Orhii missed the rostrum however achieved a brand new IPF world file squat en path to a brand new world file whole.

After the competitors, Orhii appeared on the King of the Lifts podcast the place he introduced his plans to maneuver as much as the 93KG division.

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All through the course of his complete aggressive powerlifing profession that features two gold medals at IPF World Championships, Orhii has solely ventured out of the 83KG class a single time: the 2022 USAPL Korea Winter Showdown in South Korea. Orhii competed at 90KG for that contest and achieved the next outcomes:

2022 USAPL Korea Winter Showdown Outcomes — Russel Orhii, 90KG

• Squat
  • 317.5 kilograms
  • 327.5 kilograms
  • 340 kilograms
• Bench Press
  • 182.5 kilograms
  • 190 kilograms
  • 195 kilograms
• Deadlift
  • 320 kilograms
  • 335 kilograms
  • 350 kilograms
• Whole — 885 kilograms

Since then, Orhii has come inside 15 kilograms of that whole from South Korea at a body weight of seven kilograms fewer. On the 2025 Sheffield, Orhii rewrote the file books by scoring an 870.5-kilogram whole.

Including on further kilos will permit Orhii to lock out considerably extra weight on the lifting platform. The present IPF world file at 93KG is Emil Krastev‘s 917.5 kilograms from the 2025 IPF Sheffield. If Orhii can add 47 kilograms to his whole with 10 further kilograms of body weight on his body, the 2026 Sheffield may characteristic a brand new battle amongst elite lifters: Orhii versus Krastev.

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