Djuraev at the 2021 World Weightlifting Championships
Personal information
Nationality
Uzbekistani
Born
(1999-10-08) 8 October 1999 (age 24)[1] Tashkent
Weight
108.55 kg (239.3 lb)
Sport
Country
Uzbekistan
Sport
Weightlifting
Weight class
109 kg
Team
National team
Coached by
Mansurbek Chashemov Bakhrom Abdumalikov[2]
Achievements and titles
Personal bests
Snatch: 195 kg (2021)
Clean and jerk: 242 kg (2023)
Total: 437 kg (2023)
Medal record
Representing Uzbekistan
Olympic Games
2020 Tokyo
109 kg
World Championships
2021 Tashkent
109 kg
2023 Riyadh
109 kg
Asian Games
2022 Hangzhou
109 kg
Asian Championships
2024 Tashkent
102 kg
2019 Ningbo
109 kg
2020 Tashkent
109 kg
2023 Jinju
+109 kg
Junior World Championships
2019 Suva
109 kg
Akbar Djuraev (born 8 October 1999) is an Uzbekistani weightlifter, Olympic Champion and Junior World Champion. He won the gold medal in the men's 109kg event at the 2020 Summer Olympics held in Tokyo, Japan. He also won the gold medal in the men's 109kg event at the 2021 World Weightlifting Championships held in Tashkent, Uzbekistan.[3]
He competed in the 105 kg category until 2018, and the 102 kg and 109 kg categories starting in 2018 after the International Weightlifting Federation reorganized the categories.[4]
He holds the junior world record in the snatch and total in the 102 kg division, as well as the snatch, clean & jerk and total in the 109 kg division.
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^Oliver, Brian (16 December 2021). "Home fans celebrate as Djuraev adds weightlifting world title to Olympic gold". InsideTheGames.biz. Archived from the original on 16 December 2021. Retrieved 16 December 2021.
^"PDF listing of 2018 Group A world championship entrants in 102 kg" (PDF). Ashgabat2018.com. Archived from the original (PDF) on 17 November 2018. Retrieved 24 December 2018.
AkbarDjuraev (born 8 October 1999) is an Uzbekistani weightlifter, Olympic Champion and Junior World Champion. He won the gold medal in the men's 109 kg...
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December 2019. Oliver, Brian (16 December 2021). "Home fans celebrate as Djuraev adds weightlifting world title to Olympic gold". InsideTheGames.biz. Retrieved...
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(ARM) 2019: Simon Martirosyan (ARM) 2021: AkbarDjuraev (UZB) 2022: Ruslan Nurudinov (UZB) 2023: AkbarDjuraev (UZB) Open (1891–1904) +80 kg (1905–1913)...
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following notable people: Abduhamid Juraev (1932–2005), Tajik mathematician AkbarDjuraev (born 1999), Uzbek weightlifter Dilshod Juraev (born 1992), Uzbek football...
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(ARM) 2019: Simon Martirosyan (ARM) 2021: AkbarDjuraev (UZB) 2022: Ruslan Nurudinov (UZB) 2023: AkbarDjuraev (UZB) Open (1891–1904) +80 kg (1905–1913)...