Libor Wälzer (born 8 December 1975 in Sokolov) is a Czech

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 ...

. Walzer represented the

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at the

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, where he competed for the men's heavyweight category (105 kg). Walzer placed sixteenth in this event, as he successfully lifted in the single-motion snatch, and hoisted in the two-part, shoulder-to-overhead

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 ...

, for a total of . Walzer was later elevated to a higher position, when Ukraine's Ihor Razoronov had been disqualified from the Olympics, after he tested positive for

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NBC 2008 Olympics profile
1975 births Living people Czech male weightlifters Olympic weightlifters for the Czech Republic Weightlifters at the 2008 Summer Olympics Czech sportspeople in doping cases Sportspeople from Sokolov 21st-century Czech sportsmen {{CzechRepublic-weightlifting-bio-stub