Yusuf Fehmi Genç (born 23 May 2002) is a Turkish

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 73 kg division. He won the gold medal at the

2025 European Weightlifting Championships The 2025 European Weightlifting Championships was held in Chișinău, Moldova, from 13 to 21 April 2025. Host Selection Controversy The European Weightlifting Federation (EWF) picked Moldova to host the 2025 European Senior Weightlifting Cham ...

Career

In 2021, he won a bronze medal in his event at the Junior World Weightlifting Championships held in Tashkent, Uzbekistan. At the

2022 World Weightlifting Championships The 2022 World Weightlifting Championships was a weightlifting competition held in Bogotá, Colombia in December 2022. It was scheduled to be held in Chongqing, China but this changed in March 2022 as a result of COVID-19 measures in China. The ne ...

held in Bogotá, Colombia, Yusuf Fehmi Genç, competing in the 67 kg category, placed eighth in the snatch with 140 kg, gold in the jerk with 182 kg, and fourth in the total with 322 kg. With this success, he brought Turkey a gold medal in men's weightlifting for the first time in 7 years. Yusuf Fehmi Genç in men's 73 kg at the 2023 European Weightlifting Championships in Yerevan, Armenia, placed ninth in the snatch with 146 kg, gold medal in the jerk with 186 kg and fifth in the total with 332 kg. Yusuf Fehmi Genç won the gold medal at the 2024 European Junior and U23 Weightlifting Championships held at the Raszyn Centrum Sports Hall in Warsaw, Poland, men's 67 kg category with 144 kg in the snatch, 176 kg in the jerk and 320 kg in total. Yusuf Fehmi Genç finished third at the 2024 World Weightlifting Championships in Manama, Bahrain, with 181 kg in the 67 kg weightlifting and 327 kg in total. He won 2 bronze medals with this degree. At the

held in Chișinău, Moldova. Yusuf Fehmi Genç won the silver medal for snatch, and gold for jerk and total in the men's 73 kg . He broke the European record with 194 kg in the jerk. His 348 kg in total is equal to the European Record.

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Genç, Yusuf Fehmi 2002 births Living people Sportspeople from Ordu Turkish male weightlifters Islamic Solidarity Games medalists in weightlifting Recipients of the Tereggi Medal 21st-century Turkish sportsmen Islamic Solidarity Games gold medalists for Turkey Medalists at the 2021 Islamic Solidarity Games World Weightlifting Championships medalists European Weightlifting Championships medalists