Current World Record Bench Press

I am the american record holder for raw bench press currently ranked 1 in the world for raw bench press and one of only five men in history to bench press over 700lbs.

Current world record bench press. 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. At the united states powerlifting uspa the tribute event on august 3rd 2019 john haack bench pressed 232 5kg 512 5lb at a bodyweight of 181 6lb on his way to setting an all time world record. 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.

These records were achieved using wrist wraps. 322 5 kg and was performed on july 13 1997 in philadelphia pennsylvania as the 3rd attempt at. Blaine also squat lifted 500 kg during the competition.

Sooner than most i entered the professional world of powerlifting and found a way to leave my mark. The heaviest bench press in a single lift is 401 5 kg 885 lbs 2 oz achieved by blaine sumner b 22 june 1987. James henderson is the current world record holder for heaviest drug tested raw bench press in history and the highest raw bench press ever done in a full powerlifting 3 lift meet squat bench press deadlift.

Maddox was the current world record holder for raw bench press which he first set in august 2019. 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. 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.

His bodyweight at the time was 167 51 kg. The current world record raw bench press without a bench shirt is 335 5 kg 739 6 lb set by julius maddox of owensboro ky usa on september 1 2019 this just beat the previous record bench press of 335 kg 738 5lbs by russian kirill sarychev on november 22 2015. Maddox beat the previous record holder kirill sarychev s 738 5 pound press by hitting 739 6.