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bench goes horridly wrong

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"Russian weightlifter Igor Golushkin (Игорь Голушкин) died after 185 kg barbell he was trying to bench press at a powerlifting competition in the city of Shahty (Шахты) slipped his grasp and crushed his chest. The crushing weight of the barbell severely hemorrhaged his heart, destroyed his diaphragm, broke his ribs and ripped torn his abdominal cavity.

34 year old athlete from Rostov-on-Don, Igor Golushkin competed in the weight category of up to 90 kg. While not new to weightlifting, this was his first time in a competition.

According to expert analysis, Igor Golushkin used an illegal hold that athletes call “open enough” when he was crushed. It was also said that he shouldn’t have been trying his luck with weights beyond what he was capable of handling during training (his maximum bench press during training was 160 kg)".

Suicide grip :shifty:

I remember Nigel Cordes (sp) doing this with about the same weight at a WBOP novice comp CBC lifted at. He lucky to walk away from shit like this.

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Not gonna watch it...

Nope deifnitely not...

No way I want to see this...

Ok just a quick look, It can't be that bad...

F#%k that :shock: , I actually feel physically ill now. :puke:

Yeah, I want to watch it but I also know it'll haunt me.

Nope, not watching. Although it just seems absolutely ridiculous to me that anyone would want to use the suicide grip.

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"Russian weightlifter Igor Golushkin (Игорь Голушкин) died after 185 kg barbell he was trying to bench press at a powerlifting competition in the city of Shahty (Шахты) slipped his grasp and crushed his chest. The crushing weight of the barbell severely hemorrhaged his heart, destroyed his diaphragm, broke his ribs and ripped torn his abdominal cavity.

34 year old athlete from Rostov-on-Don, Igor Golushkin competed in the weight category of up to 90 kg. While not new to weightlifting, this was his first time in a competition.

According to expert analysis, Igor Golushkin used an illegal hold that athletes call “open enough” when he was crushed. It was also said that he shouldn’t have been trying his luck with weights beyond what he was capable of handling during training (his maximum bench press during training was 160 kg)".

Suicide grip :shifty:

I remember Nigel Cordes (sp) doing this with about the same weight at a WBOP novice comp CBC lifted at. He lucky to walk away from shit like this.

hard bro ...infact thats who i thought of when i saw the vid was nigel, prob reason why he wasnt as affected from his was he had a f*ck tonne more mass than Igor

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Extremely unfortunate, and it was his first competition..

They should really be competing with pins or at least have spotters that are able to be their job.

As mentioned above one of the spotters was completely day dream which was potentially a factor that allowed this accident to happen.

Grip looked fine to me, wasn't suicide grip not sure what the open hand grip is though

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When a bar drops like that, it is incredibly hard to stop. The best they could've hoped to have done would be to slow the speed of the bar. Not sticking up for them at all because they certainly weren't as focused as they should've been, but catching 185 dropping at that speed would have taken some freaky reactions :shock: I don't think anyone expects a bar to fall out of somebody's grasp like that, and it happens so quickly it is hard to prevent damage happening.

Cupping the hands under the ends of the bar might have helped lessen the impact to the guy's chest, but the best course of action is to have safety racks.

Edit - if you watch the slow-mo at the end of the vid, the guy on the other side had his hands cupped under the bar and was following it, but by the time he reacted to what was happening, it had gone through his hands and hit the guy's chest.

Same thing happened to TFB at a novice comp earlier this year (I think? Might have been last year). Happens in the blink of an eye.

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I'm spotting at our club bench comp tomorrow, after working tonight... Will pop plenty of caffeine and pay extra attention :shock:

A combination of the spotter actually doing his job, and having safety racks could likely have saved his life. Seems silly not to use the safety racks :?

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Not watching but I think I have seen it. :(

Such a bad way to die, I wonder how the spotters feel.

Things like this I dont like to put into my head. Like that 2 year old chinese girl that gone run over in China, and no one helped. Just the comments alone were enough.

185kg...dayum

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