Flores Deadlifts 511 kg for All-Time World Record

Raúl "Tayzon" Flores deadlifted 511 kg at the Utilita Arena in Birmingham on 5 September 2026, setting a new all-time world record and becoming the first Mexican world deadlift champion.

A single kilogram that shifted a sport

The bar was loaded to a weight no human had ever locked out. Flores approached the platform at the Giants Live Strongman Open, chalked his hands, and gripped the knurling.

When the lift began, the bar bent under the load. Flores drove upward and held the lockout steady until the down command, then dropped the weight and stood before a roaring crowd.

The moment rewrote the record books by a margin of just 1 kg, surpassing the 510 kg mark set by Hafþór Júlíus Björnsson at the same championship one year earlier.

From 453 to a world record in twelve months

Twelve months before, on the same Birmingham stage, Flores had managed 453.5 kg and finished joint-fourth. The leap to 511 kg represents a gain of 57.5 kg, a 13 percent improvement in a single year.

Björnsson, who lifted 480 kg on the day to place second, took the microphone immediately after the record to congratulate the new champion publicly. The gesture underlined the respect the feat commanded inside a lineage that already includes Eddie Hall and Benedikt Magnússon.

In the weeks leading to Birmingham, Flores had pulled 470 kg for three reps in training and, on 25 August, recorded an unofficial 504 kg pull.

A quiet word before the storm

Before the competition, Flores told reporters he wanted "to take the world deadlift record, 511 kilograms, and give a good show to the whole world." Afterwards, recovering at his hotel, he sent a simple message to Mexican fans: "It was something super hard, but it was achieved."

At 165 kg bodyweight, the lift moved roughly 3.1 times his own mass, carrying the ambition of a strongman who until 2025 had never set foot in a major international final.