Ritvars Suharevs

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.[1]

Ritvars Suharevs
Personal information
Nationality Latvia
Born (1999-01-11) January 11, 1999
Dobele, Latvia
Height1.62 m (5 ft 4 in)
Weight80.76 kg (178.0 lb)
Sport
Country Latvia
SportWeightlifting
Event(s)–81 kg
Coached byEduards Andruškevičs
Achievements and titles
Personal best(s)
  • Snatch: 162 kg (2019)
  • Clean & jerk: 192 kg (2019)
  • Total: 354 kg (2019)

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.[2] 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.[3] At the 2016 European Junior Championships, Ritvars came second in the −77kg class, finishing only a kilogram behind gold medalist Davit Hovhannisyan.[4]

Major results

Year Venue Weight Snatch (kg) Clean & Jerk (kg) Total Rank
1 2 3 Rank 1 2 3 Rank
European Championships
2016 Førde, Norway77 kg14314715081671711771632112
2017 Split, Croatia77 kg145150154817518018583358
2018 Bucharest, Romania77 kg15015015617618118653374
2019 Batumi, Georgia81 kg1551601621831871925354
Junior World Weightlifting Championships
2017 Tokyo, Japan77 kg14715115417518018463344
2018 Tashkent, Uzbekistan77 kg148152156175180185336


References

  1. PDF listing of 2018 Group B world championship entrants in 81 kg
  2. "IWRP - Weightlifting Database". iwrp.net. Retrieved 2017-07-30.
  3. "EWFED Result Database". result.ewfed.com. Retrieved 2017-07-30.
  4. DELFI (2016-12-06). "Svarcēlāju Suharevu tikai kilograms šķir no Eiropas junioru čempionāta zelta". DELFI (in Latvian). Retrieved 2017-07-30.
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