>200kg Bench Press = 20+ metres ?

@James Joycey are you really going to hit 20 m this year? At an event in March perhaps?

no I knew you were talking about shot as it was in your question! Really interested in the
answer. Wonder if physics is your answer? I was sort of asking the question in the Majeski standing throw question on how high the throw was.

http://www.bsharp.org/physics/shotput

When Jacko Gill hit 20.01m in 2011 I believe his bench was under 200kg.

Vésteinn once told me there was someone who benched 110kg and threw 65+ in discus.

I found this calculator http://www.brianmac.co.uk/shot/. There is one for hammer and discus as well. Feed in height of release, angle and speed of release in m/s. Think this answers your question. Just have to find a way of calculating the speed of release. Interesting to see the formula

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Vésteinn once told me there was someone who benched 110kg and threw 65+ in discus.

Do you know who that was?
Are you still in contact with the legend coach vesteinn? Could you get him here ? Would be awesome for some throwers to talk to him as well.

Probably he meant @Wrucky , 2 years ago.

As a shot putter you need a certain 'base' strength. But a shot putter can hit 20 and even 21 or 22 meter in shot without a 200 kg bench. It's all about speed. In the end the shot is 'only' 7,26kg/16lbs.

I agree with @Rutger Smith . Personally, I achieved 20.06 with a 190kg bench press 1RM(with pad). I then went on to achieve 21.29m without increasing or similarly replicating the load stimulus of 190kg+ bench.

@Justin RODHE what was your 1RM bench when you were throwing 17m at Mt. Union?
@Rutger Smith do you do much benching? (or maybe @Tony Ciarelli could say?)

@Sam Fillious My best 1RM bench press when I had 17m-18m result in 2007 was 315lbs(140kg). I was able to achieve 19.70m condition in 2009 without lifting more than this amount of weight in training.

@Sam Fillious :

When I threw for the first time over 20 meter (20.39m, Hengelo 2002) I had a bench of 165kg/365lbs.
When I hit my personal best of 21.62m (2006) I had a bench of 190kg/418lbs that year.
In december 2011 I pressed 200kg/440lbs. That is my bench pb. Last year (2013) I pressed 190. So not really impressive numbers.
Most impressive bench press I had is the speed I developed with 100kg/220lbs. I pressed over 1600Watts (1602 exactly). 120kg/264lbs around 1400Watts. 140kg/308lbs around 1200Watts.

As I said above. A shot putter needs a certain 'base' strength for a 21-22 meter throw. I think for bench it is around 180-190kg. Key thing with that strength is the speed you develop in bench and other lifts.
In the end it is all about the speed of release in the throwing events.

@Rutger Smith . This is great conversation on rate of force production. This is a key concept that I think while many people have an academic understanding, real world implementation often lacks, especially where harnessing this development in peak condition in concerned.
I have also done some testing in the past with 100kg bench press. I am sure the circumstances and mechanisms of our test were different, but for encyclopaedic interest, here they are:

100kg Bench Press w/pad
3 repetition set in which the 2nd repetition produced the highest results.
Max Watts: 3902
Max Speed: 1.92m/s

What about @Tom Walsh now since he went over 21m
What's your bench max?

Tom Walsh only 195kg Bench so perhaps you don't need 200kg+ to throw 20m+ let only 21m+...

i think its more important how fast u move the weight not how much is on the bar. you do need base strength to be good at shot maybe 170kg and above. but i would say 85% of the people that throw over 20m would have 190kg bench press. but then it depends what type of thrower u are strength base or speed base as i am more towards speed so thats how i get away with it
i think i was bench 180kg maybe 185kg when i 1st threw 20m

Benched 200kg in 1989 just scraped a 16m putt that year.