Athlete
Helen Maroulis
American freestyle wrestler and 2016 Olympic gold medalist
2 sourced records. Each exercise has a top recorded mark and its evidence. Check the date, age, effort and method before you compare.
Helen Maroulis Weighted ring pull-up
Helen Maroulis's recorded Weighted ring pull-up is 30 kg. Performance date: 2016. Age at the time: 24–25. This was a working set. The source at tim.blog gives this mark. Source type: interview. Confidence is medium.
Training before the Rio Olympics; women’s 53 kg class limit
Source quote and limits
“She managed to do pull-ups on the rings with 30 kilos”
Coach Charles Poliquin directly reports that Maroulis completed ring pull-ups with 30 kg of added weight the day before she flew to Rio for the 2016 Olympics. The exact training date and rep count are unknown. This is an achieved loaded training mark; the coach does not call it a maximum. The original episode was published November 6, 2016: https://tim.blog/2016/11/06/charles-poliquin-mass-building-program/ . The transcript was published June 19, 2018. The 53 kg Olympic class is a limit, not measured bodyweight. Identity and event context: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helen_Maroulis .
2016
- Weighted ring pull-up30 kg
Quote and details
“She managed to do pull-ups on the rings with 30 kilos”
Helen Maroulis Weighted chin-up
Helen Maroulis's recorded Weighted chin-up is 27 kg × 2. Performance date: 2015. Age at the time: 23–24. This was a working set. The source at tim.blog gives this mark. Source type: interview. Confidence is medium.
Training before the 2015 World Wrestling Championships; women’s 55 kg class limit
Source quote and limits
“She did two supine chin-ups with 27 kilos”
Coach Charles Poliquin describes two completed chin-ups with 27 kg of added weight, five days before Maroulis left for the World Championships that she won. The original episode was published November 6, 2016: https://tim.blog/2016/11/06/charles-poliquin-mass-building-program/ . This places the pre-Rio world-title account in 2015; the exact training date is unknown. The transcript was published June 19, 2018. The source calls the movement supine chin-ups; this is stored as a named chin-up variation. No maximum claim or bodyweight is given. Her 55 kg class at the 2015 Worlds is a limit, not measured bodyweight; identity and event context: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helen_Maroulis .
2015
- Weighted chin-up27 kg × 2
Quote and details
“She did two supine chin-ups with 27 kilos”
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