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Ritvars Suharevs
Personal information
Nationality Latvia
Born (1999-01-11) 11 January 1999 (age 25)
Dobele, Latvia
Height1.62 m (5 ft 4 in)
Weight80.90 kg (178.4 lb)[1]
Sport
Country Latvia
SportWeightlifting
Event–81 kg
Coached byEduards Andruškevičs
Achievements and titles
Personal bests
  • Snatch: 162 kg (2019)
  • Clean & jerk: 192 kg (2019)
  • Total: 354 kg (2019)
Medal record
Representing  Latvia
European Championships
Gold medal – first place 2023 Yerevan –73 kg
Bronze medal – third place 2021 Moscow –81 kg
Bronze medal – third place 2019 Batumi –81 kg
European Junior Championships
Silver medal – second place 2016 Eilat –77 kg
Silver medal – second place 2015 Klaipėda –77 kg
World Youth Championships
Silver medal – second place 2015 Lima –69 kg
European Youth Championships
Gold medal – first place 2016 Nowy Tomyśl –77 kg
Gold medal – first place 2015 Landskrona –69 kg
Gold medal – first place 2014 Ciechanów –62 kg
Gold medal – first place 2013 Klaipėda –56 kg
Junior World Championships
Gold medal – first place 2018 Tashkent –77 kg

Ritvars Suharevs (born 11 January 1999 in Dobele) is a Latvian weightlifter, and Junior World Champion competing in the 77 kg category until 2018 and 81 kg starting in 2018 after the International Weightlifting Federation reorganized the categories.[2]

Career

Other Competitions

Suharevs' first major result came at the 2013 European Youth Championships held in Klaipėda, Lithuania where he won three golds; coming first in the overall classification along with the individual snatch and clean & jerk.[3] The following year, in 2014, Suharevs won gold again at the European Youth Championships hosted in Ciechanów, this time in the −62 kg with a total lift of 256 kg.[4] At the 2016 European Junior Championships, Ritvars came second in the −77kg class, finishing only a kilogram behind gold medalist Davit Hovhannisyan.[5]

Major results

Year Venue Weight Snatch (kg) Clean & Jerk (kg) Total Rank
1 2 3 Rank 1 2 3 Rank
European Championships
2016 Norway Førde, Norway 77 kg 143 147 150 8 167 171 177 16 321 12
2017 Croatia Split, Croatia 77 kg 145 150 154 8 175 180 185 8 335 8
2018 Romania Bucharest, Romania 77 kg 150 150 156 3rd place, bronze medalist(s) 176 181 186 5 337 4
2019 Georgia (country) Batumi, Georgia 81 kg 155 160 162 1st place, gold medalist(s) 183 187 192 5 354 3rd place, bronze medalist(s)
Junior World Weightlifting Championships
2017 Japan Tokyo, Japan 77 kg 147 151 154 3rd place, bronze medalist(s) 175 180 184 6 334 4
2018 Uzbekistan Tashkent, Uzbekistan 77 kg 148 152 156 1st place, gold medalist(s) 175 180 185 1st place, gold medalist(s) 336 1st place, gold medalist(s)


References

  1. ^ "Weightlifting. Men's 81 kg. Group A. Protocol" (PDF). olympics.com. Archived from the original (PDF) on 31 July 2021. Retrieved 31 July 2021.
  2. ^ PDF listing of 2018 Group B world championship entrants in 81 kg
  3. ^ "IWRP - Weightlifting Database". iwrp.net. Retrieved 30 July 2017.
  4. ^ "EWFED Result Database". result.ewfed.com. Retrieved 30 July 2017.
  5. ^ DELFI (6 December 2016). "Svarcēlāju Suharevu tikai kilograms šķir no Eiropas junioru čempionāta zelta". DELFI (in Latvian). Retrieved 30 July 2017.


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