If those are 20kg plates on each side then that is a 660lb, ass to ankles, hardly any lifting gear, squat. Also, look at the size of that guy...he is by no means a monster, I would guess he weighs at most 200-205. Quite impressive I must say, but hardly uncommon among good olympic lifters.
When I was most recently at the Olympic Training Center in Colorado Springs, there was a board on one of the walls that has the athletes squats, C&J, and Snatch posted (I think that's all that was up there). I cannot recall seeing one athlete who had anything less than a 2.5x BW squat, and you can be assured that they were using no more lifting gear than the guy in this pic. I cannot remember exactly what Shane Hamman's was, but I believe it was in the 800+ range. Not bad considering these guys only do squats as supplementary work.
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