Who are the top 15 strongest women in the world as of 2023?

Who are the top 15 strongest women in the world as of 2023?

Claudia Kogi
updated at April 12, 2023 at 8:02 PM

When it comes to fitness according to social standards, it is usually men who go to the gym and get supper ripped whereas for women, we often think of feminineness and cuteness, however, there actually are some women existing in the world that can make some men standing next to them feel weak. Are you curious about them? If yes then keep reading this article because here we have compiled a list of the top 15 strongest women in the world as of 2023!

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Bodybuilding has long been regarded as a manly attribute. Even today, some women are regarded less feminine simply because they do not fit to society's expectations for men and women. Nevertheless, several women are breaking free and pursuing their passion. So, who is the toughest woman in the world?

Who is the strongest woman in the world ever?

According to the recent statistics on the strongest woman in the world, we have compiled a list displaying the strongest females in the world.

15. Tatiana Kashirina

Tatiana is a Russian Olympic weightlifter who competed in the 90+ and 75+ kg categories until 2018 and then in the +87 kg category after the International Weightlifting Federation rearranged the divisions.

She has won the World Championships in the +75 kg and +87 kg divisions five times between 2010 and 2018. Additionally, she is dubbed the beautiful strongest woman in the world.

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Tatiana Kashirina of Russia competes in the women's +75kg weight class during the 2015 International Weightlifting Federation World Championships in Houston, Texas. Photo: Scott Halleran
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Profile summary

  • Full name: Tatiana Yuryevna Kashirina
  • Date of birth: 24 January 1991
  • Age: 31
  • Place of birth: Noginsk, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union
  • Nationality: Russian
  • Height: 177 cm
  • Weight: 239 pounds

14. Aneta Florczyk

Aneta Florczyk began her career as a weightlifter at the age of 16. She won the Polish Championships numerous times and was crowned European Champion in 2000. Aneta is the first Polish woman to lift 500 kilograms in powerlifting after being suspended from the national team.

Profile summary

  • Full name: Aneta Florczyk
  • Date of birth: 26 February 1982
  • Age: 40 years old as of 2023
  • Place of birth: Malbork, Poland
  • Nationality: Polish
  • Ethnicity: Polish
  • Height: 168 cm
  • Weight: 165 pounds

13. Becca Swanson

Rebecca Swanson began her career as a bodybuilder in 1996, but eventually switched to powerlifting. She was told that she was too large for bodybuilding, which inspired her to try powerlifting. She is the only woman who has ever squatted 854 pounds, benched 600 pounds and deadlifted 694 pounds.

As a result, Becca Swanson is known to be the strongest girl in the world.

Profile summary

  • Full name: Rebecca Swanson
  • Date of birth: 20 November 1973
  • Age: 49 years old as of 2023
  • Place of birth: Papillion, Nebraska, U.S.
  • Nationality: American
  • Height: 178cm
  • Weight: 215 pounds

12. Anna Harjapaa

Anna Harjapaa is just getting to her 40s. Harjapaa, who will turn 43 in May, is fresh off a strong showing at the Arnold Sports Festival, where she took first place in the amateur heavyweight class of the Amateur Strongwoman Championships. She overcome a persistent ailment and sickness on her fourth trip to The Arnold because she was motivated to reach the finals.

Profile summary

  • Full name: Anna Harjapaa
  • Date of birth: 24 May 1979
  • Age: 43 years old as of 2023
  • Nationality: Sweden
  • Height: 169cm
  • Weight: 160 pounds

11. Chen Wei Ling

Chen Wei-ling, a Taiwanese-born is a weightlifter and powerlifter who has competed at the Olympic level. Wei-Ling participated in the 48 kilogram weightlifting division at the 2004 Summer Olympics and finished 11th with 170.0 kg. After the initial gold and silver medalists were banned for drug usage, she was later granted the gold medal.

Profile summary

  • Full name: Chen Wei-ling
  • Date of birth: 4 January 1982
  • Age: 41 years old as of 2023
  • Place of birth: Tainan, Taiwan
  • Nationality: Taiwanese
  • Height: 149 cm
  • Weight: 104 pounds

10. Judy Glenney

Judy Glenney is a former IWF referee and coach as well as an American National Weightlifting Champion. She is credited as being a forerunner in women's weightlifting and has been dubbed the strongest woman in history for her achievements in professional competition powerlifting.

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  • Full name: Judith Ann Glenney
  • Date of birth: March 15, 1949
  • Age: 73 years old as of 2023
  • Place of birth: Portland, Oregon, United States
  • Nationality: American
  • Height: 167 cm
  • Weight: 162 pounds

9. Britta Maggard

Maggard has worked as a fitness instructor for the previous few years. She claimed to have played basketball in high school and began working out at a local gym in her hometown.

She started training for weight lifting and competed in a few events. Additionally, she won Kentucky's Strongest Woman in her inaugural Strongman Corporation competition in Louisville.

Profile summary

  • Full name: Britta Maggard
  • Year of birth: 1987
  • Age: 35 years old as of 2023
  • Nationality: USA
  • Height: 180cm
  • Weight: 155 - 165 pounds

8. Jill Mills

Jill Mills' competitive career has lasted over two decades, from pioneer to strength sports icon. She spent her leisure time on the family farm performing calisthenics and jogging since she was a child.

Jill already had distinguished herself as a strong lifter on the platform prior to 2007, when powerlifting records were officially acknowledged by the web site Powerlifting Watch. She established state and national APF records in the 165 and 181 weight divisions with very little gear, compared to today's multi-ply lifters.

Profile summary

  • Full name: Jill Mills
  • Date of birth: 2 March 1972
  • Age: 50
  • Place of birth: Indiana
  • Height: 160cm
  • Weight: 167 pounds

7. Donna Moore

In 2016, 2017, and 2019, Moore was named the World's Strongest Woman. She is a role model for women in her profession and throughout the world. Donna Moore is a British strongwoman legend who has won the World's Strongest Woman three times and holds the Atlas Stone title.

Profile summary

  • Full name: Donna Moore
  • Date of birth: 1 May 1980
  • Age: 42
  • Place of birth: North Yorkshire, United Kingdom
  • Ethnicity: British
  • Height: 171 cm
  • Weight: 170 pounds

6. Sarah Robles

Sarah Robles is a weightlifter from the United States. She qualified for the 2012 Summer Olympics in London and won a third position in weightlifting at the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro, making her the first American woman to medal in the sport in 16 years.

At the 2020 Olympic Games in Tokyo, she replicated her feat in the +87 kg division, earning bronze once more and became the first American woman to win two Olympic weightlifting medals.

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Sarah Elizabeth Robles of Team United States competes during the Weightlifting - Women's 87kg+ Group A on day ten of the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games in Tokyo, Japan. Photo: Chris Graythen
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  • Full name: Sarah Elizabeth Robles
  • Date of birth: 1 August 1988
  • Age: 34 years old as of 2023
  • Place of birth: San Jacinto, Calif.
  • Nationality: American
  • Ethnicity: American
  • Height: 179 cm
  • Weight: 309 pounds

5. Bev Francis

Beverley Francis is a retired pro weightlifter, bodybuilder, and nationwide shot put queen from Australia. She earned a degree in physical education and a teaching credential from the University of Melbourne in 1976. She then spent eight years teaching high school physical education and mathematics.

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Australian Power Lifter, Bev Francis took part in the Australian Power Lifting Competition at the Opera House in August 22, 1980. Photo: Pearce/Fairfax Media
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Profile summary

  • Full name: Beverley Francis
  • Date of birth: 15 February 1955
  • Age: 67 years old as of 2023
  • Place of birth: Geelong, state Victoria, Australia
  • Nationality: Australian
  • Ethnicity: Australian
  • Height: 165 cm
  • Weight: 160 pounds

4. Inez Carrasquillo

Inez grew up in the city of Chicago, Illinois. Her grandma adopted her and her sisters. She excelled at shotput and enjoyed volleyball. She has spent her entire life playing volleyball.

Inez has only been into the sport for a year, and is consistently shattering global strongman records. She has an excellent shot of being the next World's Strongest Woman, and the first Latina to do it.

Profile summary

  • Full name: Inez Carrasquillo
  • Date of birth: 14 February 1994
  • Age: 28
  • Place of birth: Chicago, Illinois
  • Ethnicity: Latina
  • Height: 6'2"
  • Weight: 155 - 165lbs

3. Annabelle Chapman

Just two years into her career as a strongwoman, Annabelle has already gained a reputation for her tremendous skill. Just six short months before the Tamworth’s Strongest Man, she scored a massive win at the England’s Strongest Woman, showing to her fellow contemporaries that she had arrived.

Profile summary

  • Full name: Annabelle Chapman
  • Year of birth: 1994
  • Age: 28
  • Place of birth: United Kingdom
  • Ethnicity: British
  • Height: 173cm
  • Weight: 155 - 165lbs

2. Kortney Olson

Kortney Olson is a bodybuilder, fitness instructor, and athlete of American and Australian origin. She said that she was encouraged to begin bodybuilding at an early age, partially because she admired her elder brother and partly because she was allegedly abused as a child.

She set the Word Record for being fastest in crushing three watermelons between the thighs at the opening of the aforementioned GRRRL Clothing. She broke the previous women's record of 14.75 seconds set by Olga Liashchuk of Ukraine.

Profile summary

  • Full name: Kortney Olson.
  • Date of birth: 9 November 1981
  • Age: 42 as of 2023
  • Place of birth: Humboldt, Northern California.
  • Nationality: American
  • Height: 170cm
  • Weight: 155 - 165lbs

1. Rebecca Roberts

Rebecca Roberts, a strongwoman and clutch athlete from Wales, won the World's Strongest Woman championship at Daytona Beach in 2021. Roberts was born and brought up in North Wales. After losing her mother at an early age and her father succumbing to dementia.

Roberts works long hours but trains for about 20 hours a week to participate at the international level. She is highly active on social media, where she posts about her workouts, contests, and weight reduction journey.

Profile summary

  • Full name: Rebecca Roberts.
  • Competition: 1st in UK's Strongest Woman 2022
  • Age: 28 as of 2023
  • Nationality: Wales
  • Height: 193cm
  • Weight: 295 pounds

How old is the strongest woman in the world?

The strongest woman on earth, Rebecca Roberts, was born on 18 December 1994. Therefore as of 2023, she is 28 years old.

Even though bodybuilding has long been regarded as a manly attribute, women are surpassing that fact and joining weight-lifting sports. We hope from the list above you are equipped with the right information regarding the strongest women in the world.

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Claudia Kogi is a Kenyan content creator with over 3 years of experience. Claudia joined Sportsbrief.com as a writer in January 2022, covering sports and relatable content.