Empowered by the house area benefit, Nasar affirmed himself as probably the greatest 89-kilogram weightlifters on this planet.
Final up to date on February seventeenth, 2024
He’s carried out it once more … once more. On Saturday, Feb. 17, 2024, Bulgarian weightlifter Karlos Nasar set his newest document — a 176-kilogram (388-pound) Junior world document snatch throughout the Males’s 89-kilogram session on the 2024 European Weightlifting Championships (EWC).
This yr’s EWC, which runs from Feb. 12 to twenty in Sofia, Bulgaria, is one the final possibilities for aspiring weightlifters to qualify for the 2024 Olympic Video games. In entrance of a house crowd, 19-year-old Nasar made maybe his finest case but as the favourite for gold in Paris this summer season.
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Along with his new Junior world document snatch, Nasar carried out exceptionally nicely throughout the clear & jerks, lifting 215 kilograms overhead earlier than declining his third and closing try. He completed first general, profitable his second Senior European title whereas nonetheless having one other yr as Junior athlete.
Right here’s a breakdown of Nasar’s efficiency in Sofia. Be aware that each one weights are listed in kilograms:
Karlos Nasar 2024 European Weightlifting Championships
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Nasar at present sits in second place on the Worldwide Weightlifting Federation’s (IWF) rating leaderboard, the first metric figuring out which 10 athletes will qualify for Paris. Nasar’s 395-kilogram Complete (which he set on the EWC in 2023) locations him simply behind chief Li Dayin of China.
Rating primary doesn’t immediately have an effect on an athlete’s possibilities of making it to Paris, however the increased you place, the stronger your case within the eyes of your nation’s weightlifting federation: Nasar is all however confirmed for Paris 2024 this late into the qualification interval. Regardless, he’ll have yet one more shot at grabbing that prime slot on the closing occasion of the quad, the IWF World Cup, which kicks off in late April.
A File Wrecking Ball
Since Nasar burst onto the weightlifting scene with a silver medal on the 2021 EWC, he’s been broadly thought of probably the most gifted male Junior on this planet. Nasar went on to steal his first Senior world title on the 2021 World Weightlifting Championships — from Lu Xiaojun, who had just lately received his third Olympic gold medal in Tokyo — and the remainder is historical past.
He has since set Senior world data in a number of weight lessons and been among the many most enjoyable weightlifters to observe take the platform. Right here’s a glimpse at Nasar’s IWF competitors historical past:
If Nasar can preserve his momentum heading into the Paris Olympics, he’s bought a superb — however not assured — probability at profitable the gold medal. Nasar definitely has momentum on his aspect; commentators on the EWC remarked that his portrait is featured on billboards throughout Sofia. Nonetheless, it’s Nasar’s seemingly-endless reservoir of power is certainly his greatest asset, if this 176-kilogram snatch is something to go by.
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