Daiki Kodama (83KG) Bench Presses 230.5 Kilograms (508.1 Kilos) for IPF Uncooked World Report

Kodama really participated as each a uncooked and outfitted competitor on the 2023 IPF World Bench Press Championships. Along with his uncooked IPF World Report, Kodama recorded a 275-kilogram (606.2-pound) bench press whereas sporting a single-ply shirt throughout the outfitted portion. Whereas the elevate isn’t an IPF World Report, it was sufficient to present Kodama one other first-place outcome within the competitors.

Per his web page on Open Powerlifting, Kodama is a predominant bench press-only competitor. In a profession spanning again to September 2001, Kodama has been a participant in full energy meets on simply 4 events. Along with his uncooked and outfitted first-place performances from the 2023 IPF World Bench Press Championships, Kodama can now boast greater than 20 separate gold medals (uncooked and outfitted) from the competition as recognition of his outstanding upper-body energy.

In his native Japan, Kodama can also be a frequent participant in Japanese bench press competitions. The athlete can spotlight one other 20+ distinct gold medals, each uncooked and outfitted, in bench press-only Japanese competitions. (Word: This doesn’t rely victories in competitions that includes a selected career, resembling regulation enforcement or firefighters, as the principle class of rivals.)

Notably, Kodama additionally possesses the IPF Uncooked World Report bench press within the 74-kilogram division. He scored this elevate of 225 kilograms (496 kilos) on the 2019 IPF World Males’s Open Basic Bench Press Championships, which paradoxically happened in Japan throughout the spring of 2019.