The bench press Championship in Uzhgorod

The open Championship of a separate powerlifting exercise (the most popular one) – bench press was held in Uzhgorod sports complex ‘Yunist’ (‘Youth’) yesterday, May 26.

Teams from all the district of the region, except from Uzhgorod, and guests from Lviv participated in the tournament. The competitions in this exercise can be conducted with a special outfit (the so-called press shirts) and without. It can be compared with the pole vault and with track and field athletics with some assumption that is why it is two different kinds of program in powerlifting. Today’s competition was held in the version without any special equipment.

The best results in their categories showed:

Up to 59 kg: the first place took Leivoi Olexandr 110 kg, the second place, 97,5 kg Petryshyn Sergii and the third place with the result 87,5 kg Dankanych Pavlo;

Up to 66 kg: 1^st Zhinchyn Nazar 130 kg, 2^nd Teteutsa Vitalii 120 kg and the 3^rd place took Miakushko Olexandr with the same result but with a little greater own weight;

Up to 74 kg: 1^st Krysa Yevgen 165 kg, 2^nd Smetanskyi Igor 157,5 kg, 3^rd Danilov Viacheslav 145 kg;

Up to 84 kg: 1^st Zakharov Yevgen 172,5 kg, 2^nd Shliakhta Olexandr 170 kg, 3^rd Pylypenko Yurii 160 kg;

Up to 93 kg: 1^st Mykulanynets Ernest 180 kg, 2^nd Myholynets Yurii 175 kg, 3^rd Forkosh Vladyslav 165 kg;

Up to 105 kg: 1^st Maievskyi Vasyl 215 kg, 2^nd Mosii Igor 180 kg, 3^rd Lemak Fedir 172,5 kg. By the way, Fedir graduates from the high school this year.

Up to 120 kg: 1^st Drohobetskyi Ivan 210 kg, 2^nd Sytar Yaroslav 170 kg, 3^rd Prozor Yevhen 155 kg;

Over 120 kg: 1^st place won Zherebak Yevhen 255 kg, 2^nd Nevzorov Mykhailo 200 kg, 3^rd Novinkin Viktor 192,5kg.

The sportsmen that demonstrated the highest absolute results in the general offset and separately among veterans over 40-year were awarded with the individual cups. These are Yevgen Zherebak with the result of 255 kg and Drohobetskyi Ivan with the result of 210 kg.

The Mukachevo 1 team won the 1^st place in the team ratings, 2^nd took Uzhgorod team and the 3^rd place won Mukachevo 2 team.

It is also nice to note that two of the competition organizers, Yevhen Prozor and Ivan Drohobetskyi respectively became the winners and champions.