Hunter Henderson: Strongest girl on this site?

I've seen commenters claim that Hunter Henderson is the strongest girl on this site, and she's certainly immensely strong:

But is she really the strongest girl here? If it isn't Hunter, then who is it?

Brace yourselves, Natalia Trukhina fans incoming.

Just saw MPMD do an ep on her. She certainly has an...interesting deadlift technique (and some strange need to show it to the world)

Just saw MPMD do an ep on her. She certainly has an...interesting deadlift technique (and some strange need to show it to the world)

If I owned the gyms she lifts at, I would be so pissed to witness that technique.

If I owned the gyms she lifts at, I would be so pissed to witness that technique.

lol. I guess it all Depends

Any suggestions of girls who are stronger than Hunter?

Maybe Kristy Hawkins?

If I owned the gyms she lifts at, I would be so pissed to witness that technique.

I see what you did there

i'd say kristy or cc ( chakera ) holcomb.

Becca Swanson is def the very strongest woman ever.

Gillian ward

Yeah I'd say Becca Swanson too

Natalya is probably stronger than Becca is now, but there's no way she's stronger than Becca was at her peak. Peak Becca blows all of them away, but Kristy and probably Chakera are the strongest in their weight classes. Kristy is defo stronger than Hunter (but not by much; Hunter is a fierce rival).

Gillian ward

Pound for pound Gillian is a good choice

Agree with above

I figured Gillian and Kristy would come up, but I wasn't familiar with Becca or Chakera.

Depends what you're counting as "strong" but Amanda Lawrence isn't too shabby at DL.

Neither is Jessica Buettner

Samantha Rice?

Not while Kristy Hawkins exists.

in this site i would say is kristy hawkins, if you speak in powerlifting strength terms. samantha rice is not far off. as in general, there are a few women stronger than kristy..and when i mean a gfew, it's like 3 or 4. the strongest woman in powerlifting now is tamara walcott, an african american powerlifter who deadlifted over 600 lbs in competition, not far off 662, benched close to 400 and squatted well over 600. she is a superheavyweight though, 283 lbs. fascinating topic

Jessica doesn't have the bench for it. Fairly certain she's squatting 450+ but that's a far cry from the 625 Hunter did yesterday.

Also the gym owners are well aware of the pee situation. clearly they do not care, and neither do the people around here. it's just the keyboard jockeys that are now coming out of the woodworks.

anyways, they're talking about Wilks score which puts Hunter at 2nd all time. Check out this link for Wilks rankings: https://www.openpowerlifting.org/

The default has both men and women (also be aware that Wilks score formula definitely favors women), but it also has the date of the score, so you'll see Kristy on the list and a lot of the usual powerlifting suspects.

Jessica Buettners highest registered on that list isn't even in the top 250 (although she cracks the top 100 in women's only rankings).

Gillian Ward is on that list but she doesn't crack the top 200 women. However, her last registered score was 2013. HOWEVER however. I don't believe I've seen her clear 500D/300B/500S in training a even a few years ago.

Kristy is the #7 woman but Hunter's TOTAL is higher, in the same weight class. IIRC Kristy had an injury recently so she hasn't recorded a score since 2019.

Again, keep in mind that the rankings are the Wilks score, which is how they are always ranking things, which is why Hunter is the #2.

Walcott is ranked #94 for women--because she weighs 300lbs, almost twice as much as Hunter.

if you want to go IPF, amanda lawrence is much stronger than jessica and just a weightclass above, her best total ever is 646 lbs which i believe is like 1420 lbs. squats well over 500, in fact squatted 550 a few times, deadlifts around 560ish and benches 285-290 lbs