Today was the final day in Almaty at the IPC Asian Open Championships where a huge amount of World Records plus many Asian and Junior Records were broken.
The highlight of the competition was Siamand Rahman’s (IRI, +M107kg) massive 295kg Bench Press on his 3rd attempt, adding another 2kg onto his record he broke just minutes before. Competition results are listed here.
And here it is RAHMAN’s World Record breaking 295kg lift!!!!
Posted by IPC Powerlifting on Thursday, 30 July 2015
Men’s +107kg Full Session, 295kg at 1hr 15m
Cong Le Van’s (VIE, M49kg) 182kg World Record (1hr 2m)
Zhe Cui (CHN, W41kg) 103.5kg World Record (31m)
Rasool Mohsin (IRQ, M72kg) 225kg World Record (5m)
Yujiao Tan (CHN, W67kg) 137.5kg World Record (1hr 16m)
Jixiong Ye (CHN, M88kg) 230kg World Record (1hr 8m)
Bose Omolayo (NGR, W79kg) 137kg World Record (57m)
Elshan Huseynov (AZE, M107kg) 242kg World Record (1hr 13m)
Precious Orji (NGR, +W86kg) 153kg World Record (34m)
Man, Siamand is an absolute favorite of mine! I remember the first time i saw him bench, it was his 301 attempt in London. It actually brought a tear to my eye to see him do that, such and awesome man. And huge respect to every single athlete who keeps fighting despite having issues like Siamand or other. They are such massive inspirations i think, the will that they have to fight for the sport they love despite anything! Epic!!!
Video of just Siamand’s lift. Thanks for covering this Gregor!
Iran has big tradition of big strong men. What a lift. So smooth with no bench shirt and no leg assistance. Very impressive.