Sepiashvili competed on the 2024 Euro Muscle Present in Amsterdam, Netherlands.
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Jaba Sepiashvili, a light-weight Georgian bench press specialist, normally competes within the 59KG class. He has had some success on this class, most notably successful the Junior world title on the 2023 Worldwide Powerlifting Federation (IPF) World Bench Press Championships in Solar Metropolis, South Africa.
On the 2024 Euro Muscle Present (EMS) in Amsterdam, Netherlands, Sepiashvili dropped into the 53KG class, a weight class reserved just for junior and sub-junior athletes. The IPF retains two units of bench press world information—these carried out as a part of a full-power competitors, i.e., between squat and deadlift, and people carried out in a bench-only competitors.
Sepiashvili claimed the only elevate file together with his first bench press at 140 kilograms and prolonged it to 150 kilograms on his second try. Try the elevate under, courtesy of the IPF’s Instagram web page:
Sepiashvili benched with out utilizing any supportive tools, not even wrist wraps. His arms shook a little bit as he pressed the barbell from his chest, however he locked it out efficiently and was rewarded with three white lights from the referees.
The one elevate bench press file within the Junior 53KG class was beforehand an ordinary at 135 kilograms. The IPF units minimal requirements for world information reasonably than permitting any weight achieved within the class to face as an IPF world file, and up till the EMS, nobody had met that normal.
The competition featured athletes from completely different weight lessons. It was subsequently scored on GL factors, a components designed to match the lifters throughout completely different body weight classes utilized by the IPF and its associates. Sepiashvili’s efficiency secured him third place with 96.54 GL factors, solely 0.02 factors behind second place. This additionally netted him a prize purse of 500 Euros.
2024 IPF Euro Muscle Present Outcomes — Jaba Sepiashvili (Georgia), 53KG
- Bench Press
- 140 kilograms
- 150 kilograms — IPF Junior Uncooked World Document
157 kilograms
Sepiashvili might be again in motion on the European Powerlifting Federation (EPF) European Bench Press Championships (EBPC) in Istanbul, Türkiye. The competitors will start on August 5, 2024, and run for seven days.
Sepiashvili was nominated within the 59KG class on the 2024 EBPC, so he can’t prolong his Junior world file. He is just one and a half kilograms away from the European Junior file within the 59KG class, although, so he could decide up one other file at that contest.
Featured picture: @theipf on Instagram