Umurbek Bazarbayev (born September 17, 1981, in Ýylanly, Dasoguz Province, Turkmenistan) is a

Turkmenistan Turkmenistan is a landlocked country in Central Asia bordered by Kazakhstan to the northwest, Uzbekistan to the north, east and northeast, Afghanistan to the southeast, Iran to the south and southwest and the Caspian Sea to the west. Ash ...

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. His personal best is 303 kg, achieved at the 2011 World Championships. He ranked sixth in the 62 kg category at the

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, with a total of 287.5 kg. At the 2008 Asian Championships he won the overall bronze medal, with a total of 296 kg. He competed in

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in the 62 kg division but did not finish. At the

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, he again finished 6th, with a total of 302 kg. He is 5 ft 4 inches tall and weighs 143 lb.

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