Mission accomplished.
Stinn, 31, set world records in the bench press and overall total to win her first IPF World Open Championship in Dubai, UAE earlier this week, marking the culmination of a journey that began way back in 2003 and has been filled with success every step of the way.
Stinn had only two misses in the entire event, but neither would act as a stopping point.
Competing as one of the lightest competitors in the 84-kilogram class, Stinn sat in third place after the squat, clearing 250-kg on her first lift, missing 257.5 on her second and hitting that same weight (566.5 pounds) on her final attempt. Natalie Hanson of the U.S. won the event with a 265.0-kg lift.
Stinn had a bit of a scare in the second lift, the bench press, but when you’re shooting for a world record no less than 14 kilograms over your own previous world mark, that’ll happen.
Stinn – who set a world record of 191-kg in the 76-kilogram class during the bench-press-only championships – missed her first attempt at 205-kg but hit it on her second attempt and then went even further, clearing an astonishing 212.5-kg (467.5 pounds) to win the event by no less than 17.5 kg. That set a new world record in the 84-kg division. Hanson was second with a 195-kg press.
By the time it came to the deadlift, Stinn essentially had the world championship in the bag. She would hit all three of her lifts, including 215-kg (473 pounds) on her final attempt, to finish sixth, but would have more than enough weight in the total to get the job done.
In the end, Stinn cleared 685 kilograms, the highest total of any competitor in the meet across all weight classes to that point. As is pretty much expected at this point, her total was also a world record..
Here’s video of the entire 84-kg women’s competition, including all of Stinn’s lifts.
