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Sohrab Moradi Won Gold at West Asian C’ship

reporter 1222 — Sat, 29 Feb 2020 08:07:05 +0000

TEHRAN (Iran News) – Sohrab Moradi seized a gold medal at the 96kg at the West Asian Weightlifting Championship in Dubai, the UAE.

Sohrab Moradi, who won a gold at 94kg in Rio but has suffered two serious injuries during qualifying, participated in the competition as the only Iranian lifter.

Iran was supposed to participate in the competition in Dubai with seven weightlifters but their flight was canceled due to coronavirus outbreak threat in the region and country.

He took a gold medal with a total of 370kg (163kg in snatch and 207kg in clean & jerk).

A weightlifter from Saudi Arabia won the silver medal with 302kg and Uzbekistan’s weightlifter claimed the bronze with 290kg.

Moradi badly injured his spine a year ago then dislocated a shoulder last July.

He also is hopeful of a good performance at the Asian Championships in Kazakhstan that is going to be held in April.

Moradi is way down in 78th place in the current rankings and would probably need to lift close to world-record levels in both those competitions to make it – but he is the world record holder in snatch and total at 96kg, both set when he won the 2018 world title.

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Iranian weightlifter Moradi nominated for lifter of the year

reporter 1222 — Wed, 09 Jan 2019 07:30:33 +0000

Sohrab Moradi from Iran has been nominated for the Best Male Lifter in 2018 by the International Weightlifting Federation.

The Iranian weightlifter has had an incredible 2018 competitive season. In August, he blew the weightlifting community’s mind with his 189kg world record snatch in the -94kg weight class. Then in November at the IWF World Championships, Moradi swept gold and set three world records in the brand new -96kg weight class.

Moradi must vie with Indonesian Eko Yuli Irawan (61kg), Xiaojun Liu from China (81kg), Armenian Simon Martirosyan (109kg) and Lasha Talakhadze from Georgia (+109kg).

The deadline to register to vote is Jan. 31.

The Lifter of the Year election was initiated by the late Jenő Boskovics (Hungarian), the founding Editor-in-Chief of the magazine. After his death in 2010, World Weightlifting created a Challenge Trophy in Memoriam Jenő Boskovics.

The same Trophy – one for Men, one for Women – has been awarded annually ever since to the Best Male and Best Female Weightlifter of the World. Every year, the new names are engraved on the Trophies.

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Iran’s Moradi breaks world weightlifting record

reporter 1222 — Sat, 25 Aug 2018 09:30:26 +0000

Iranian weightlifter Sohrab Moradi broke the world record in the snatch of 94kg category by successfully raising 189 kilograms.

In the seventh day of 2018 Asian Games in Indonesia, 2016 Olympics champion lifted 185kg in his first move of snatch to secure his first place in the ranking table. Then, as announced before, he attacked the 188kg world record set by Akakios Kakiasvilis some 19 years ago.

Moradi chose 189kg in his second attempt but failed. However in his third snatch move, he managed to successfully conquer the weight and set a new world record.

Competitions are underway in clean and jerk to determine the winners of this weight category.

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Iran’s Moradi Nominated for IWF’s Lifter of the Year

reporter 1222 — Mon, 08 Jan 2018 10:35:40 +0000

Iranian weightlifter Sohrab Moradi has been nominated for the Lifter of the Year 2017.

Moradi snatched a gold medal at the 2017 International Weightlifting Federation (IWF) World Championships

Moradi, who won gold in Rio last year, also broke two world records in winning the 94 kilogram class.

Colombian Francisco Mosquera Valencia (62kg), Egyptian Ihab Mahmoud (77kg), Chilean Arley Mendez (85kg) and Georgian Lasha Talakhadze (+105kg) will also vie for the award.

The voting will be closed on January 31st.

The winners will each receive a Jenő Boskovics Lifter of the Year Trophy. It’s named after the Hungarian weightlifting journalist who worked as the Press Chief and Spokesman of the IWF for several decades and served as the editor-in-chief of World Weightlifting Magazine from 1980 until his death in 2010.

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Sohrab Moradi Breaks Weightlifting World Record in Ashgabat 2017

reporter 1222 — Sun, 24 Sep 2017 07:58:43 +0000

TEHRAN – Olympic champion Sohrab Moradi broke the overall men’s 94 kilograms weightlifting world record at the 2017 Asian Indoor and Martial Arts Games on Saturday.

Moradi registered a total of 413kg to beat the mark set by Greece’s Akakios Kakhiasvilis as far back as November 1999 by 1kg.

It came after he won the snatch with 185kg and the clean and jerk with 228kg.

“This is the result of many years of work and I am very happy and delighted for my efforts,” Moradi, who managed a total of 403kg on his way to winning Olympic gold at Rio 2016, told insidethegames.

“One of my goals as an athlete was to win an Olympic title. This is important. But this one is also important because I really wanted to do it. I am happy to do this,” he added.

Uzbekistan’s Farkhodbek Sobirov took the silver medal with 391kg, after finishing second in the snatch with 181kg and fourth in the clean and jerk with 210kg.

China’s Lu Hao rounded out the podium with 387kg having finished third in the snatch with 176kg and joint second in the clean and jerk, alongside Qatar’s Fares Elbakh, with 211kg.

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