Moreno Boer (born 9 January 1977 ) is an Italian

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 lif ...

. He was born in Pordenone. He is a member of the weightlifting team for

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, and is coached and trained by Angelo Mannironi. Boer made his official debut for the

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in Sydney, where he hauled 365.0 kilograms in total for a twelfth-place finish in the men's heavyweight class (105 kg).

Biography

Eight years after competing in his last Olympics, Boer qualified for his second Italian team, as a 30-year-old, at the 2008 Summer Olympics in

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, by finishing twenty-fourth and obtaining a place from the 2007 World Weightlifting Championships in Chiang Mai, Thailand. Boer placed eighteenth in the men's 105 kg class, as he successfully lifted 150 kg in the single-motion snatch, and hoisted 170 kg in the two-part, shoulder-to-overhead clean and jerk, for a total of 330 kg. Boer was later elevated to a higher position, when Ukraine's

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had been disqualified from the Games, after he tested positive for

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Boer, Moreno 1977 births Living people Italian male weightlifters Olympic weightlifters of Italy Weightlifters at the 2000 Summer Olympics Weightlifters at the 2008 Summer Olympics People from Pordenone Mediterranean Games silver medalists for Italy Mediterranean Games medalists in weightlifting Competitors at the 2001 Mediterranean Games Weightlifters of Fiamme Oro Sportspeople from Friuli-Venezia Giulia 20th-century Italian people 21st-century Italian people