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| Birth name | Douglas Ivan Hepburn | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Born | September 16, 1926 Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Died | November 22, 2000 (aged 74) | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Occupation(s) | strongman, Olympic weightlifting, professional wrestling, | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Height | 5 ft 8+1⁄2 in (1.74 m) | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Weight | 300 lb (136 kg) active | ||||||||||||||||||||
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Douglas Ivan Hepburn (September 16, 1926 – November 22, 2000) was a Canadian strongman and weightlifter. He won weightlifting gold medals in the 1953 World Weightlifting Championships as well as the 1954 British Empire Games in the heavyweight division. He is also known as the first man to bench press 400, 450, 500, and 550 pounds (raw). During the 1950s he was publicly known as the "world's strongest man" for his many feats of strength. Hepburn has been inducted into the Canadian Olympic Hall of Fame (1953), Canada's Sports Hall of Fame (1955), and the B.C. Sports Hall of Fame (1966).