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In Sept. 2021, she broke the world record for heaviest raw deadlift in the the world by a woman— 636 lbs.— and then broke her own record earlier this year, lifting 639 lbs.
ABC News(NEW YORK) -- Tamara Walcott, a 38-year-old mother of two from Columbia, Maryland, said that if anyone had told her five years ago she'd be a world champion powerlifter, she would have laughed. This year, Walcott won the title for the heaviest raw deadlift in the world by a woman after deadlifting 639 pounds. Her journey to a world title began in 2018 when Walcott took up weightlifting to gain strength. "I think one of the biggest things that kind of made me change my life and decide that I wanted to do this is that I wanted to take control of my life " Walcott said Wedn...
(NEW YORK) -- Tamara Walcott, a 38-year-old mother of two from Columbia, Maryland, said that if anyone had told her five years ago she'd be a world champion powerlifter, she would have laughed. This year, Walcott won the title for the heaviest raw deadlift in the world by a woman after deadlifting 639 pounds. Her
Tamara Walcott is featured in People magazine's "Beyond the Scale" feature.
Tamara Walcott weighed 415lbs but once she replaced her food addiction with lifting weights she lost 165lbs and and today can deadlift 639lbs - the weight of a baby grand piano