World Record In Bench Press

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.
World record in bench press. His bodyweight at the time was 167 51 kg. Usa at the 2016 arnold sports festival held in columbus ohio usa on 5 march 2016. He recently set the world record in his weight class when he bench pressed 551 pounds at the olympia pro powerlifting competition in.
6 ft 2 his current record is the third time in 2008 that he has broken the bench press world record. No big deal just the heaviest bench press of all time. Kenneth cook is a man of many strengths.
Blaine also squat lifted 500 kg during the competition. 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. 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.
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. The heaviest bench press in a single lift is 401 5 kg 885 lbs 2 oz achieved by blaine sumner b 22 june 1987. World record bench press first man to ever bench 1 100lbs tiny meeker 12 14 2013.
A man who has been pumping iron for just seven years now holds the world record in the raw bench press after hoisting a staggering 739 6 pounds at an event on saturday in california the owensboro.