Dr. Terry Todd

Terry Todd
Terry Todd and wife Jan Todd in the reading room of the H.J. Lutcher Stark Center for Physical Culture and Sports.
Born	Terry Todd (1937-12-31) December 31, 1937 (age 79) Austin Texas
Occupation	powerlifting, Olympic weightlifting, historian
Height	6 ft 2 in (1.88 m)
Weight	335 lb (152 kg)
Spouse(s)	Jan Todd

Competition record
Powerlifting
Representing  United States
AAU US National Championships
1st	1964	+90kg
1st	1965	+90kg
2nd	1966	+90kg
Olympic weightlifting
Representing  United States
Junior National Weightlifting Championships
1st	1963	+90kg

Terry Todd (born January 1, 1938), is a former Powerlifter, and Olympic weightlifter. Todd is co-founder of the H.J. Lutcher Stark Center for Physical Culture and Sports, co-editor of Iron Game History: The Journal of Physical Culture, and creator and event director of the Arnold Strongman Classic. Todd has also held a career as a journalist on the staff of Sports Illustrated magazine, as well as doing commentary for CBS, NBC, ESPN and National Public Radio. Todd lives with his wife Jan on a 300-acre (1.2 km²) cattle ranch on the San Marcos River with a large collection of animals including 5 peacocks, a Percheron draft horse, 50 cattle, two Sicilian donkeys, an English Mastiff dog, an Emu, and three Maine Coon Cats.

Terry Todd began as a weightlifter in 1956, and won the Junior Nationals in Olympic weightlifting in 1963. He then turned to Powerlifting, and won the first two national championships in 1964 and in 1965 (the first official Senior Nationals) as a superheavyweight. At the 1965 Nationals, Todd became the first man to squat 700 lbs. in competition, although the actual weight was in fact 710 lbs. at a bodyweight of 335 lbs. Dr. Todd became the first man to total 1600, 1700, 1800, and 1900 pounds in competition. His best official lifts were: a 720-pound squat, a 515-pound bench press, and a 742-pound deadlift. Todd retired from competition in 1967.

Terry Todd was directly involved in the development of the sport of women's powerlifting. He helped Jan Todd organize the first national women's meet in 1977, and coached the women's Canadian team, with Jan, from 1976-1979. In 1979, Todd was elected to the Executive Committee of the United States Powerlifting Federation. Todd lobbied for, and ultimately achieved autonomy for the women's committee, but finally abandoned the USPF when he could not convince the organization to institute a steroid testing program for men and women lifters. In 1977, when the World Powerlifting Championships were televised in the USA for the first time, Todd was the color commentator for NBC. In the following few years, he also did color commentary for national and international powerlifting events for NBC, CBS, ESPN, and the BBC, some of which involved women's powerlifting.