Karlos May Nasar of Bulgaria performs a clean and jerk, setting a new world record during the men’s 89kg weightlifting on Friday.
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Karlos May Nasar of Bulgaria had an afternoon to remember in Paris as he set multiple world records on his way to gold in the men’s 89kg weightlifting event.
The 20-year-old lifted 180kg in the snatch part before smashing the previous world record in clean and jerk with his 224kg attempt.
The 2021 world champion finished the event on 404kg, which broke the world record for the total lifted in that particular weight category.
Colombia’s Yeison López took silver with 390kg and Antonino Pizzolato of Italy won bronze with 384kg.
As the competition got into its latter stages, the record for the clean and jerk portion was the target for multiple competitors.
Nasar broke it with his first lift at 213kg. Armenia’s Andranik Karapetyan, Iran’s Mirmostafa Javadi Aliabadi and Yu Dong-ju of South Korea were all unsuccessful in their first efforts. Javadi Aliabadi failed on one more attempt.
And then it was time for Nasar to shine.
The Bulgarian – who already held the world record in the formats and the total – blew his opponents out of the water with his world record lift of 224kg, making it look effortless.
Not only did it break his own world record for the clean and jerk and total weight, it also broke the hitherto elusive 400kg mark.
