See Eric D. Spoto “Vanilla Gorilla” beaking the raw bench press record with a lift of 722lbs (327.5 kg) . The previous record was 715 lbs by Scot Mendelson. See more about the Bench Press world best scores. Raw bench pressing is done without equipment such as bench shirts. Using such aids there have been lifts above 1000 lbs. I was curious and had to look up what he was sniffing in the video before the lift – and the answer is smelling salts.
EDIT: This record has now been broken by Russian Kirill Sarychev. He lifted 335 kg (738.5lbs) on November 22, 2015.
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World Record Raw Bench Press by Eric Spoto
November 2nd, 2014 · No Comments · Bench Press, Weight Lifting
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100m Men's Sprint 1996 Atlanta Olympic Games
May 1st, 2012 · No Comments · Athletics
The men’s 100m at the 1996 Atlanta Olympic Games was won by Canadian sprinter Donovan Bailey in 9.84 seconds in a world record time. Here is a video of the final. See more on the History of the Olympics 100m sprint.
Tags: 100m·1996·1996 Olympics·Athletics·Atlanta·events·olympic games·track and field·USA·world record
Vladimir Jurcik new situp world record
April 25th, 2011 · 2 Comments · Sit Ups
On April 1st, 2011, 60 year old Vladimir Jurcik broke Jim Clark’s world record by just 37 situps, achieving 2238 crunches in one hour – achieved in Rundle Mall, Adelaide, South Australia. This record has not been officially confirmed. See more about Sit Up World Records.
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24 hr Push Up World Record
March 7th, 2011 · No Comments · Push Ups
A Push Up World Record attempt by Charles Servizio on April 24-25, 1993. He broke the record with 46,001 Push-Ups in 24 Hours (he stopped at 21 hrs 21 minutes). There is a nice split screen effect with some footage of him performing at 6x speed.
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Sit Up World Record for One Hour
March 7th, 2011 · No Comments · Sit Ups
The Guinness world record 2,201 sit ups in one hour by Jim Clark at the Mall of America in Bloomington (Minnesota,USA), on June 2, 2006. See more about Sit Up World Records.
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1974 Commonwealth Games 1500m Final
September 22nd, 2010 · No Comments · Athletics
All about the men’s 1500m at the 1974 Commonwealth Games held in Christchurch New Zealand. This has to be one of the greatest 1500m races of all time. Filbert Bayi of Tanzania raced to the front and took it to the rest of the field.
He held on to win in a time of 3:32.2 – a new world record by almost a full second. Local boy John Walker was happy with his second place, also beating the previous world record.
Tags: 1500m·1974·Christchurch·Com Games 1974·Commonwealth Games·events·new zealand·Tanzania·world record
Long Track Speed Skating World Record
January 12th, 2010 · No Comments · Speed Skating
There are long and short track speed skating events. Here is South Korean Lee Kang-Seok breaking the world record in the 500-metre long track race at the 2007 world speed skating championships held in in Salt Lake City, with a time of 34.25 seconds. You wont get much information from the German commentary, but you can see the style and grace of long track skating.
Tags: long track·Salt Lake City·South Korea·Speed Skating·USA·winter sports·world record
Chin Up World Record
November 26th, 2009 · 2 Comments · Chin Ups
Matt Bogdanowicz from the USA here sets a new World Record for the maximum number of pull-ups (chin-ups) in a minute, achieved on October 27th 2007 – 46 chin-ups in a minute. How many can you do? The record has since been broken by Jason Petzold. The pull-up is a common fitness test conducted around the world. See more about chin-up world records.
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Mark Pfeltz world record sit ups
October 20th, 2009 · 1 Comment · Sit Ups
Here is Mark Pfeltz setting a world record for sit ups. Mark Pfeltz of Baltimore, Maryland set the Guinness Book Of World Records for the maximum number of sit ups in 1986, completing 45,005 in 58.5hrs. As with these records there is a five minute break allowed every hour
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Gene Rychlak Benching Record
October 20th, 2009 · No Comments · Bench Press
Here is a video of Gene Rychlak Jr benching the world record 1010 at The APF Metal Militia Memorial Powerlifting Contest.
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