Pavel Khadasevich (born 16 July 1993) is a Belarusian

Olympic 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 ...

and Olympian competing in the 85 kg category until 2018 and 89 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

He competed at the

2016 Summer Olympics The 2016 Summer Olympics ( pt, Jogos Olímpicos de Verão de 2016), officially the Games of the XXXI Olympiad ( pt, Jogos da XXXI Olimpíada) and also known as Rio 2016, was an international multi-sport event held from 5 to 21 August 20 ...

in the 85 kg category, originally finishing 7th, but was upgraded to 6th after the original bronze medalist

Gabriel Sîncrăian Gabriel Sîncrăian (born 21 December 1988) is a Romanian weightlifter who competes in the 85 kg weight division. Career He took part in the 2012 and 2016 Olympics and won a bronze medal in the same 85-kg event in 2016. Sîncrăian won two ...

failed a drug test in October of that year.

Major results

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* * * 1993 births Living people Belarusian male weightlifters Weightlifters at the 2016 Summer Olympics Olympic weightlifters for Belarus World Weightlifting Championships medalists European Weightlifting Championships medalists {{Belarus-weightlifting-bio-stub