Arli Chontey (born 1 July 1992) is a Kazakhstani male

weightlifter Olympic weightlifting, or Olympic-style weightlifting (officially named Weightlifting), is a sport in which athletes compete in lifting a barbell loaded with weight plates from the ground to overhead, with each athlete trying to successfully lif ...

who competes in the -55 kg division. He won the gold medal in the men's 55 kg 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. Due to concerns about the rapid spread of SARS-CoV-2 Omicron variant, Omicron variant and held shortly after 2020 Summer ...

held in Tashkent, Uzbekistan. Chontey was born in

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and moved to China at a young age. Not given a chance to get into China's national weightlifting team, he moved back to Kyrgyzstan in 2008. In 2011, Chontey began training with the Kazakh national team in 2011. In 2012, he became a citizen of Kazakhstan.

Competition

He finished sixth overall at the

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and

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World Championships, and placed second in the snatch in 2015, but failed all attempts in the clean and jerk. He qualified for the 2016 Summer Olympics.Arli Chontey
. rio2016.com He won the silver medal in the men's 55kg event at the

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held in Manama, Bahrain. He won the silver medal in the men's 55kg Snatch event at the

2022 World Weightlifting Championships The 2022 World Weightlifting Championships was a weightlifting competition held in Bogotá, Colombia in December 2022. It was scheduled to be held in Chongqing, China but this changed in March 2022 as a result of COVID-19 measures in China. The ...

held in Bogotá, Colombia.

Major results

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* * {{DEFAULTSORT:Chontey, Arli 1992 births Living people Olympic weightlifters of Kazakhstan Weightlifters at the 2016 Summer Olympics Kazakhstani male weightlifters Weightlifters at the 2014 Asian Games Universiade medalists in weightlifting World Weightlifting Championships medalists Sportspeople from Almaty Universiade bronze medalists for Kazakhstan Asian Games competitors for Kazakhstan Medalists at the 2017 Summer Universiade Islamic Solidarity Games competitors for Kazakhstan Islamic Solidarity Games medalists in weightlifting 21st-century Kazakhstani people