Khetag Khugaev (born 21 October 1997) is a Russian

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 ...

, competing in the 94 kg category until 2018 and 96 kg starting in 2018 after the

International Weightlifting Federation The International Weightlifting Federation (IWF), headquartered in Lausanne, is the international governing body for the sport of Olympic weightlifting. The IWF was founded in 1905, and has 192 Member Federations. The IWF President is Mohammed H ...

reorganized the categories.

Career

In 2014, he competed at the 2014 Summer Youth Olympic Games in the 85 kg category, winning the gold medal. At the

2015 European Weightlifting Championships The 2015 European Weightlifting Championships were held in Tbilisi, Georgia Georgia most commonly refers to: * Georgia (country), a country in the Caucasus region of Eurasia * Georgia (U.S. state), a state in the Southeast United States Georgi ...

he competed in the 94 kg category, winning a silver medal in the snatch, clean & jerk and total.

Major results

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Khugaev, Khetag 1997 births Living people Russian male weightlifters Youth Olympic gold medalists for Russia Weightlifters at the 2014 Summer Youth Olympics European Weightlifting Championships medalists 21st-century Russian people