Brice Vivien Batchaya Ketchanke (born August 16, 1985) is a Cameroonian

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. Batchaya represented

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at the

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, where he competed for the men's light heavyweight class (85 kg). Batchaya placed fourteenth in this event, as he successfully lifted 153 kg in the single-motion snatch, and hoisted 180 kg in the two-part, shoulder-to-overhead

clean and jerk The clean and jerk is a composite of two weightlifting movements, most often performed with a barbell: the clean and the jerk. During the ''clean'', the lifter moves the barbell from the floor to a racked position across the deltoids, without res ...

, for a total of 333 kg.

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NBC Olympics Profile
Cameroonian male weightlifters 1985 births Living people Olympic weightlifters for Cameroon Weightlifters at the 2008 Summer Olympics Commonwealth Games medallists in weightlifting Commonwealth Games silver medallists for Cameroon Weightlifters at the 2006 Commonwealth Games African Games bronze medalists for Cameroon African Games medalists in weightlifting Competitors at the 2007 All-Africa Games 21st-century Cameroonian people Medallists at the 2006 Commonwealth Games {{Cameroon-weightlifting-bio-stub