Home
\
Sport
\
Weightlifter Hojamuhammet Toychyyev is in the four of the strongest super heavy weightlifters
Sport
Weightlifter Hojamuhammet Toychyyev is in the four of the strongest super heavy weightlifters
Published 10.11.2018
4688

Men competed for the medals in super heavy weight category above 109 kg on the last day of the World Weightlifting Championship. Hojamuhammet Toychyyev, who lifted 240 kg in the clean-and-jerk and improved his personal record by one kg, represented our country. Failing lifting 145 kg he became the fourth in this discipline and the seventh in total. Olympic champion Lasha Talakhadze from Georgia had nobody equal to him. In the snatch, he lifted 217 kg in the first attempt. He set new world records of 212 and 217 kg in the next two attempts. Gor Minasyan from Armenia lost 12 kg to the leader and won the silver. The bronze was taken by Irakli Turmanidze from Georgia. Ali Davoudi from Iran set junior world record of 197 in this category and took the sixth position. In the clean-and-jerk, Lasha Talakhadze set and afterwards improved the world record up to 257 kg in the discipline and up to 457 kg in total. Gor Minasyan was the second in the clean-and-jerk and n total. Uzbek weightlifter Rustam Jangibayev was the third in the clean-and-jerk and in total. Chinese weightlifting team is the leader in total medal count. It has 20 gold, 23 silver and 10 bronze medals. Weightlifters from Thailand are on the second position and the DPRK team is on the third place.

Last news
19.05
Towards new achievements in honour of the 35th anniversary of independence of our fatherland
19.05
The Turkmen capital hosted the 5th Forum of Parliamentarians of the EAG Member States
18.05
President of Turkmenistan participated in festive events on the occasion of Day of the Constitution and National Flag
18.05
A Festive Concert in Honor of the State Symbols of Our Sovereign Homeland
18.05
The total amount of transactions at the SCRMET auctions exceeded 13 million 66 thousand USA dollars
16.05
Visit of the National Leader of the Turkmen People, Chairman of the Halk Maslahaty of Turkmenistan, the Hero-Arkadag, to Great Britain
15.05
The meeting of the Cabinet of Ministers of Turkmenistan
15.05
The President of Turkmenistan expressed condolences to the leadership of the Republic of India
13.05
The 84th International Meeting of the Commonwealth of Independent States Railway Transport Council (CIS) Opened in the Capital
13.05
On the 22nd of May, 2026, a meeting of the CIS Council of Heads of Government will be held in Ashgabat
top-arrow