Marin Robu (born 19 March 2000) 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 the bronze medal in the men's 81kg 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 Omicron variant and held shortly after Olympics and Chinese National Games, t ...

held in Tashkent, Uzbekistan. He represented Moldova at the

2020 Summer Olympics The , officially the and also known as , was an international multi-sport event held from 23 July to 8 August 2021 in Tokyo, Japan, with some preliminary events that began on 21 July. Tokyo was selected as the host city during the ...

in Tokyo, Japan. In 2021, he won the silver medal in the men's 73kg event at the

European Weightlifting Championships European Weightlifting Championships is an annual event organised by the European Weightlifting Federation (EWF). It has been held since 1896. A separate event for women was held from 1988 to 1997, after which both championships have been held ...

held in Moscow, Russia. He also competed at the

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in 2018, 2019 and 2022.

Career

In 2019, he won the silver medal in the men's junior 73kg event at the European Junior & U23 Weightlifting Championships in Bucharest, Romania. A year later, he won the silver medal in the men's 73kg event at the

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in Rome, Italy. He represented Moldova at the

in Tokyo, Japan. He competed in the men's 73kg event. He competed in the men's 81kg 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 ...

in Bogotá, Colombia.

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Robu, Marin Living people 2000 births Place of birth missing (living people) Moldovan male weightlifters European Weightlifting Championships medalists World Weightlifting Championships medalists Weightlifters at the 2020 Summer Olympics Olympic weightlifters for Moldova 21st-century Moldovan people