Akbar Djuraev (born 8 October 1999) is an Uzbekistani weightlifter, Olympic Champion and Junior World Champion. He won the gold medal in the
men's 109kg event at the
2020 Summer Olympics
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held in Tokyo, Japan. He also won the gold medal in the
men's 109kg event at the
2021 World Weightlifting Championships
The 2021 World Weightlifting Championships was a weightlifting competition held from 7 to 17 December in Tashkent, Uzbekistan.
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held in Tashkent, Uzbekistan.
He competed in the 105 kg category until 2018, and the 102 kg and 109 kg categories starting in 2018 after the
International Weightlifting Federation reorganized the categories.
He holds the
junior world record in the snatch and total in the 102 kg division, as well as the snatch, clean & jerk and total in the 109 kg division.
Career
At the
2018 Junior World Weightlifting Championships, he competed in the 105 kg division, winning the silver medal in the snatch, clean & jerk, and total.
He competed at the
2018 World Weightlifting Championships
The 2018 World Weightlifting Championships were held in Ashgabat, Turkmenistan from 1 to 10 November 2018. The logo of IWF World Championships 2018 has consisted of abstract illustration of weightlifting athlete designed by Ashgabat based design fi ...
in the 102 kg category, winning a gold medal in the snatch and setting the
junior world records in the snatch and total.
In 2019, he competed at the
2019 Asian Weightlifting Championships in the 109 kg winning silver medals in all lifts and setting
Junior World Records in the snatch, clean & jerk and total.
Major results
References
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1999 births
Living people
Uzbekistani male weightlifters
Weightlifters at the 2020 Summer Olympics
Medalists at the 2020 Summer Olympics
Olympic gold medalists for Uzbekistan
Olympic medalists in weightlifting
World Weightlifting Championships medalists
Olympic weightlifters of Uzbekistan
21st-century Uzbekistani people