Martin Tešovič
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Born | 26 October 1974 Bratislava, Slovakia | (age 50)||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Martin Tešovič (born 26 October 1974 in Bratislava) is a weightlifter from Slovakia who competed from the mid-1990s to the mid-2000s. He competed three times for his native country at the Summer Olympics: 1996 (10th: middle heavyweight) and 2004 (no total, 105 kg category) and 2012 where he placed 11th in the 105 kg category with a total of 363 kg. At the 2008 Summer Olympics he was supposed to compete, but he did not enter the event.
Tešovič is best known for winning the world title at the 1997 World Weightlifting Championships in the men's sub-heavyweight class (– 99 kg) with a total of 400 kg.
At the 2005 World Weightlifting Championships he placed third with a total of 412 kg and was only 1 kg behind the silver medalist Alexandru Bratan.
Since 2008, Tešovič has competed in bobsleigh. He crashed out during the first run of the four-man event at the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver. Tešovič's best finish was fifth in a lesser cup four-man event at Lake Placid, New York in April 2009.
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- 1974 births
- Bobsledders at the 2010 Winter Olympics
- Living people
- Olympic bobsledders of Slovakia
- Olympic weightlifters of Slovakia
- Sportspeople from Bratislava
- Slovak male bobsledders
- Slovak male weightlifters
- Weightlifters at the 1996 Summer Olympics
- Weightlifters at the 2004 Summer Olympics
- Weightlifters at the 2012 Summer Olympics
- European Weightlifting Championships medalists
- World Weightlifting Championships medalists
- European bobsleigh biography stubs
- Slovak winter sports biography stubs
- European weightlifting biography stubs
- Slovak sportspeople stubs