Hawke's Bay powerlifter Ethan Foote has comfortably eclipsed the world record for deadlift in the 120kg-plus class but it won't count.
"The world record is 341kg and Ethan got 347.5kg but it wasn't a full-blown so the result will be an unofficial one," his coach, Warren Trent, of Wellington, saidlast night after Foote's feat at the Hawke's Bay Powerlifting Championship in Hastings on Saturday.
The 23-year-old storeman is attempting to regain a title he held at 330kg before a Lithuanian broke it by 5kg last year and a month ago Cameron McKenzie, an Australian, claimed the bragging rights with a deadlift of 341kg.
"It's still a very good gauge for Ethan that he'll get it at the Commonwealths," said Trent of the reigning 120kg-plus junior world champion who is jetting off to the Commonwealth Powerlifting Championship in Vancouver, Canada, in early December.
Trent, owner/trainer at Power House Gym in the capital, said Foote had made nine of out nine lifts for the first time.
