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
2984

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
18.04
The meeting of the Cabinet of Ministers of Turkmenistan
17.04
The President of Turkmenistan received the Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
16.04
Protection of health and maintenance of happy life of the growing generation - among priority goals
14.04
The President of Turkmenistan met with the Chairman of the Japan-Turkmen Inter-Parliamentary Friendship Group
14.04
President of Turkmenistan Serdar Berdimuhamedov took part in the celebrations in honor of the National Day of Turkmenistan at EXPO 2025
14.04
The total amount of transactions at the SCRMET auctions amounted to over 28 million 389 thousand US dollars
12.04
Meeting of the Mejlis of Turkmenistan
12.04
A new industrial flow of natural gas has been obtained
11.04
The meeting of the Cabinet of Ministers of Turkmenistan
11.04
An Organising Committee has been created to hold celebrations and events in Honour of the 34th anniversary of Turkmenistan’s independence
top-arrow