{"id":23754,"date":"2026-07-02T12:19:00","date_gmt":"2026-07-02T12:19:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/worldbodybuildingnews.com\/?p=23754"},"modified":"2026-07-02T12:19:00","modified_gmt":"2026-07-02T12:19:00","slug":"grande-prairie-powerlifter-in-his-60s-setting-records","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/worldbodybuildingnews.com\/?p=23754","title":{"rendered":"Grande Prairie powerlifter in his 60s setting records"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"\">\n<div class=\"img-container breakout-on-small-screens\">\n<div class=\"aspect-ratio-container\">\n<div class=\"aspect-ratio-content\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/media-cdn.socastsrm.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/2275\/files\/2026\/07\/833c0714-e8a2-439b-b939-f7eb70d48f9a.jpg\" class=\"object-fit-cover\" alt=\"\"\/>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"feature-info overlap\">\n<p>(Image Credit: screen grab from a video submitted by Raimo Paananen.)<\/p>\n<p>By <span class=\"sc-author\"> Curtis Galbraith<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Powerlifting<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t\t\t<span class=\"sc-time\">Jul 2, 2026 | 6:02 AM<\/span>\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>A soon-to-be 67-year-old from Grande Prairie is setting provincial records in powerlifting for his age and weight classes.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Raimo Paananen had a 125-kilogram squat lift, an 85-kilogram bench press and a 160-kilogram dead lift at the Alberta Powerlifting Championships, June 12 to 14, in Calgary.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Paananen competes in the Master 3 class, for those under 66 kilograms in weight and in the 60-69 age group.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>He has competed in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.openpowerlifting.org\/u\/raimopaananen\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">powerlifting events <\/a>in Canada and the US since the 1980s.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/everythinggp.com\/2026\/07\/02\/grande-prairie-powerlifter-in-his-60s-setting-records\/\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(Image Credit: screen grab from a video submitted by Raimo Paananen.) By Curtis Galbraith Powerlifting Jul 2, 2026 | 6:02 AM A soon-to-be 67-year-old from Grande Prairie is setting provincial records in powerlifting for his age and weight classes.\u00a0 Raimo Paananen had a 125-kilogram squat lift, an 85-kilogram bench press and a 160-kilogram dead lift [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":847,"featured_media":23755,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[273],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23754","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-powerlifting-news"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.9 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Grande Prairie powerlifter in his 60s setting records - World Bodybuilding News<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/worldbodybuildingnews.com\/?p=23754\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Grande Prairie powerlifter in his 60s setting records - World Bodybuilding News\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"(Image Credit: screen grab from a video submitted by Raimo Paananen.) 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