Carlos Nasar is the Olympic champion in the 89kg category at the weightlifting tournament in Paris, reports BGNES. The Bulgarian blew away the competition in a flawless manner, also setting a world record of 224 kg in the snatch.
Nasar was flawless in his first five attempts in both movements, making three successful ones in the snatch - 173, 177 and 180 kg, and two successful ones in the clean and jerk - 213 and an impressive 224 kg, which also set a world record. Thus, with a total of 404 kg our representative won the Olympic gold in an emphatic way.
A full 14 kg far behind him in the duel was Yaison Lopez of Colombia with 390. Antonino Pizzolato of Italy claimed the bronze with a bout of 384 kg, one more than the representative of Moldova Marin Robu.
Nasar thus secured Bulgaria's second Olympic title of the Paris Games after that of Semyon Novikov in the 87kg classical style wrestling category. In total, our country now has five honours, adding to the two golds the three bronzes of Kimia Alizadeh (taekwondo), Bozhidar Andreev (weightlifting) and Javier Ibaniez (boxing). | BGNES
