Ryan Shawn Kennelly (born March 23, 1974) is an American powerlifter who specializes in the bench press.
Kennelly is 6 feet 2 inches (188 cm), making him one of the tallest bench press specialists in active competition.
[3] Kennelly broke the equipped bench press world record for the first time on July 28, 2007 by pressing 1036 lbs (470 kg) at the big Ukraine Bench for Cash meet - surpassing the previous world record of Gene Rychlak by 26 pounds.
[5] Finally, on November 8, 2008, Kennelly broke the bench pressed record again with 1075.0 lbs (487.6 kg) at the Pride Strength Wars held in Kennewick, Washington for the current WPO equipped bench press world record.
On September 5, 2013, Kennelly was sentenced to 30 months in federal prison for importing anabolic steroids from India.