An influential minute in Kodama’s powerlifting profession.
Throughout the 2023 International Powerlifting Federation (IPF) 2023 IPF Globe Standard & & Outfitted Bench Press Championships, powerlifter Daiki Kodama caught a 230.5-kilogram (508-pound) raw bench press en course to a first-place efficiency in the single-lift competition. The mark is a brand-new raw IPF Globe Document in the 83-kilogram weight course, albeit of a single-lift, non-full-power-meet difference. At 44 years of ages, Kodama was a Masters 1 rival throughout this competitors.
According to the IPF documents data source, Kodama’s lift formally exceeds his peer Owen Hubbard, that bench pushed 218.5 kgs (481.7 extra pounds) for the previous document in the 83-kilogram course. Kodama used wrist covers and also a training belt to assist attain his turning point. Both tools make up raw applies in an approved powerlifting context.
Kodama really took part as both a raw and also complete rival at the 2023 IPF Globe Bench Press Championships. Along with his raw IPF Globe Document, Kodama tape-recorded a 275-kilogram (606.2-pound) bench press while using a single-ply t-shirt throughout the complete part. While the lift isn’t an IPF Globe Document, it sufficed to offer Kodama one more first-place lead to the competitors.
Per his web page on Open Powerlifting, Kodama is a primary bench press-only rival. In a job extending back to September 2001, Kodama has actually participated completely power fulfills on simply 4 events. With his raw and also complete first-place efficiencies from the 2023 IPF Globe Bench Press Championships, Kodama can currently flaunt greater than 20 different gold medals (raw and also complete) from the competition as acknowledgment of his impressive upper-body toughness.
In his indigenous Japan, Kodama is likewise a constant individual in Japanese bench press competitors. The professional athlete can highlight one more 20+ distinctive gold medals, both raw and also complete, in bench press-only Japanese competitors. (Note: This does not count success in competitors including a details occupation, such as police or firemans, as the primary course of rivals.)
Significantly, Kodama likewise has the IPF Raw Globe Document bench press in the 74-kilogram department. He scored this lift of 225 kgs (496 extra pounds) at the 2019 IPF Globe Males’s Open Standard Bench Press Championships, which actually occurred in Japan throughout the springtime of 2019.
At this phase of his powerlifting profession, Kodama likely has absolutely nothing else to show. His rap sheet has actually developed him as probably among the best bench pressers of perpetuity. At the minimum, he’s absolutely been among one of the most respected. Nonetheless, rewording the document publications yet afterward needed to be an enjoyable turning point for this experienced upper-body expert.
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