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2025 IDFPA BENCH WORLD CHAMPIONSHIPS NovemberNov 07 2025 06:00am - NovemberNov 09 2025 08:00pm UTC5 Eagle Street Albany, 12207

Please get in touch with the host to register.

Qualifying USA Powerlifting USA Lifters
Top 3 Placings at Bench Nationals
All Bench Pro Card Holders
Arnold Bench Bash Winners
Invites from Military Nationals
Invites from Master's Invitational

Qualifying USAPL Non-USA Lifters
Invitations will be sent to the top 3 benchers per weight class

from USAPL and IDFPA affiliates
A total from another drug tested organization.

IMPORTANT DEADLINES

Weight Class Change Deadline - October 25, 2025

ATHLETE INFORMATION

SCHEDULE OF EVENTS - Tentative

Thursday, November 6, 2025
- Equipment Check - 6-8 PM
- Location - TBD
Friday, November 7, 2025
- All Equipped Bench
- Female Raw 44 - 65kg
- Male Raw 56 - 70kg
Saturday, November 8th
- Female Raw 70 - 90kg
- Male Raw 75 - 125kg
Sunday, November 9th
- Female Raw 100 - 100+kg
- Male Raw 110 - 140+kg
Sunday, November 9th
- Banquet (more info forthcoming)

FLIGHT ASSIGNMENTS

Day 1
Day 2
Day 3

ATHLETE EMAILS (click to read)

Email #1

EVENT MEDIA INFORMATION

Barbell Productions will be our media team for the IDFPA Bench World Championships.

If you intend to purchase media (photos or video), you can follow the link below to pre-order.

EVENT MEDIA

EVENT INFORMATION

BENCH WORLDS SPECTATOR/COACH ENTRY

Spectator - $20 per day
Coach/Handler - $20 per session
Click the Register Now button to purchase. (Available October 1st)
Fees apply

SPECTATOR & COACH ENTRY

Spectators will be allowed into the vendor and competition room starting at TBD on November 8th & 9th.

Lifters will be allowed 1 person to assist them. This is to keep the warm-up room from being overpopulated with extra bodies. Anyone not credentialed to be in the warm-up room will be asked to leave and go to the spectator section. Security personnel will be present at the entry point, and monitors will be stationed inside the warm-up room to verify the correct wristbands.

VENUE

ALBANY CAPITAL CENTER

5 Eagle Street

Albany, 12207

PARKING

On-street parking is available around the venue for free during the weekend. There is an attached parking garage to the Albany Capital Center that has a capacity of 100 cars, and parking is $12 a day.

TRAVEL INFORMATION

Hotel Room Block

Hilton Albany
40 Lodge Street,
Albany, NY 12207

Rooms & Rates
Rooms and rates information
2 Double Beds - $159
1 King Bed - $159

Deadline

October 8th

Book Online

Airport Information

Albany International Airport

737 Albany Shaker Rd

Albany, NY 12211

(9 miles to venue; 3 miles to Wolf Road hotels)

Airlines - Allegiant, Frontier, JetBlue, Delta, United, American, Southwest
Direct Flights from - Atlanta, Baltimore, Charlotte, Chicago, Dallas, Denver, Detroit, Fort Myers, Miami, Myrtle Beach, Nashville, New York, Newark, Orlando, Philadelphia, Raleigh/Durham, Tampa, Washington DC

Trains and buses are available from NYC, Boston, and Bradley Airport (CT)