Birth name Lasha Talakhadze Event(s) +105 kg Sport Weightlifting | Nationality Georgian Name Lasha Talakhadze | |
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Born 2 October 1993 (age 31) ( 1993-10-02 ) | ||
Lasha talakhadze snatching up to 200kg full session 2015 world weightlifting championships
Lasha Talakhadze (Georgian: ლაშა ტალახაძე; born 2 October 1993 in Sachkhere) is a Georgian weightlifter competing in the +105 kg category.
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- Lasha talakhadze snatching up to 200kg full session 2015 world weightlifting championships
- Lasha talakhadze 105kg 200kg snatch 240kg clean and jerk
- Career
- References
Lasha talakhadze 105kg 200kg snatch 240kg clean and jerk
Career
Talakhadze represented Georgia at the 2015 World Weightlifting Championships finishing second with a total of 454 kg. After Aleksey Lovchev failed a doping test, Talakhadze was promoted to first place. At the 2016 Olympics he completed a snatch of 215 kg (breaking the world record of 214 kg set by Behdad Salimi, who then took the record back with 216 kg) and then completed a clean & jerk of 258 kg to set a new world record of 473 kg and win a gold medal. He set a new world record in the snatch at the 2017 European Weightlifting Championships with 217 kg, exceeding Salimi's previous record set at the 2016 Olympics.
