World Bench Record
This was during the arnold sports festival 2.
World bench record. Bench press world records are the international records in bench press across the years regardless of weight class or governing organization for bench pressing on the back without using a bridge technique. Julius maddox of owensboro ky broke the record by lifting a whopping 739. A kentucky man who has only been lifting weights for seven years is the new world record holder in the raw bench press.
The most weight ever pressed by. He recently set the world record in his weight class when he bench pressed 551 pounds at the olympia pro powerlifting competition in. The heaviest bench press in a single lift is 401 5 kg 885 lbs 2 oz achieved by blaine sumner b 22 june 1987.
On april 12th 2008 kennelly set the bench press record with a lift of 1070 lbs 486 kg during the american powerlifting association open iron war held in kennewick washington. We only caught the video in a small facebook group of about 800 members with the caption congratulations will barotti all time world record bench press holder. 6 ft 2 his current record is the third time in 2008 that he has broken the bench press world record.
Usa at the 2016 arnold sports festival held in columbus ohio usa on 5 march 2016. World record bench press first man to ever bench 1 100lbs tiny meeker 12 14 2013. Hack s record stood for seventeen years until joe nordquest broke it by a kilogram in 1916 and a hundred years later the exercise had evolved into the bench press and the world s heaviest.
The advent of bench press shirts which support the lifter s shoulders and provide upward force have increased records significantly since 1985 for example when the shirted record was. Maddox beat the previous record holder kirill sarychev s 738 5 pound press by hitting 739 6.