Mart Seim (born 24 October 1990) is an Estonian
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 +105 kg category.
Seim competed for
Estonia
Estonia, formally the Republic of Estonia, is a country by the Baltic Sea in Northern Europe. It is bordered to the north by the Gulf of Finland across from Finland, to the west by the sea across from Sweden, to the south by Latvia, a ...
at the
2014 World Weightlifting Championships
The 2014 World Weightlifting Championships were held in Baluan Sholak Sports Palace, Almaty, Kazakhstan. The event took place from November 8 to 16, 2014.
Medal summary Men
Women
Medal table
Ranking by Big (Total result) medals
Ranking ...
finishing 4th with a total of 431 kg.
At the
2015 World Weightlifting Championships
The 2015 World Weightlifting Championships were held in Houston, United States. The event took place from November 19 to 28, 2015. This event was, together with the 2014 World Weightlifting Championships, the first stage of the Qualification Pro ...
he finished third at the men's +105 kg.
After
Aleksey Lovchev failed doping tests, Seim was promoted to second place (Silver), and
Georgian
Georgian may refer to:
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* Anything related to, or originating from Georgia (country)
** Georgians, an indigenous Caucasian ethnic group
** Georgian language, a Kartvelian language spoken by Georgians
**Georgian scripts, three scrip ...
Lasha Talakhadze
Lasha Talakhadze ( ka, ლაშა ტალახაძე; born 2 October 1993) is a Georgian weightlifter, holding the all-time world records regardless of weight category in the snatch (225 kg), the clean and jerk (267 kg) and the total (49 ...
to Gold.
Seim's father and grandfather were also weightlifters.
Major results
References
External links
{{DEFAULTSORT:Seim, Mart
1990 births
Living people
World Weightlifting Championships medalists
Estonian male weightlifters
Olympic weightlifters for Estonia
Weightlifters at the 2016 Summer Olympics
Sportspeople from Rakvere
European Weightlifting Championships medalists
21st-century Estonian people