The World Record Bench Press
Blaine sumner now holds the bench press world record in competition.
The world record bench press. 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. Usa at the 2016 arnold sports festival held in columbus ohio usa on 5 march 2016. All time record of 327 5 kg in the bench press for all ages in all weight categories just a 27 year old kirill sarychev pressed 330 kg the second approach. 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. These records were achieved using wrist wraps. This was during the arnold sports festival 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.
Blaine also squat lifted 500 kg during the competition. Maddox was the current world record holder for raw bench press which he first set in august 2019. World record bench press first man to ever bench 1 100lbs tiny meeker 12 14 2013. 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.