Eugen Bratan (also ''Evgheni Bratan'', born May 22, 1981, in

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) is a Moldovan

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 lift ...

. He won a bronze medal for the 94 kg class at the

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, with a total of 382 kg. He is also a brother of two-time Olympian

Alexandru Bratan Alexandru Bratan (born 23 August 1977) is a male weightlifter from Moldova. He twice competed for his native country at the Summer Olympics: 2000 and 2004. He is best known for winning the silver medal in the men's heavyweight division (– 1 ...

(2000 and 2004). Bratan made his official debut for the

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, where he competed in the men's middle heavyweight category class (94 kg). He finished only in tenth place by 2.5 kilograms short of his record from Spain's Santiago Martínez, with a total of 380 kg (175 in the snatch and 205 in the clean and jerk). At the

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, Bratan qualified for the second time in the men's 94 kg class, after winning the bronze medal in the snatch from the

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. Bratan placed thirteenth in this event, as he successfully lifted 170 kg in the single-motion snatch, and hoisted 200 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 370 kg.

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