Felix Ekpo (born 10 May 1981) is a Nigerian

weightlifter Weightlifting or weight lifting generally refers to physical exercises and sports in which people lift weights, often in the form of dumbbells, barbells or machines. People engage in weightlifting for a variety of different reasons. These can ...

competing in the 77 kg category. His personal best is 335 kg. He won overall gold at the

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, with a total of 333 kg. At the 2007 World Weightlifting Championships he ranked 23rd with a total of 327 kg. He won gold in the snatch, silver in the

clean and jerk The clean and jerk is a composite of two weightlifting movements, most often performed with a barbell: the clean and the jerk. During the ''clean'', the lifter moves the barbell from the floor to a racked position across the deltoids, without rest ...

, and overall silver at the 2008 African Championships, with a total of 335 kg. He competed in Weightlifting at the 2008 Summer Olympics in the 77 kg division finishing fifteenth with 325 kg. In

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he competed in the same weight division and finished 8th with a total of 331 kg. He is 5 ft 3 inches tall and weighs 170 lb.

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