Lasha Talakhadze is a Georgian super-heavyweight weightlifter born October 2, 1993. He has won Olympic gold at the 2016 Rio, 2020 Tokyo and 2024 Paris Games, and is a seven-time world champion and seven-time European champion in the super-heavyweight division. Since 2021 he has held the all-time world records in the snatch at 225 kilograms, the clean and jerk at 267 kilograms, and the total at 492 kilograms.
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Career HighlightThree-time Olympic champion, seven-time world champion and seven-time European champion in the super-heavyweight category, and holder of the all-time world records in the snatch, clean and jerk and total since 2021. 1 Classification
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What world records does Lasha Talakhadze hold and when were they set?
His records are 225 kilograms in the snatch and 267 in the clean and jerk for a total of 492 kilograms.
Olympedia lists Talakhadze among Olympians who set weightlifting world records, and his marks in the super-heavyweight class above 109 kilograms stand at 225 kilograms in the snatch, 267 kilograms in the clean and jerk and 492 kilograms in the total. Each of these three figures was set on 17 December 2021 at a competition in Tashkent, Uzbekistan.
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Lasha Talakhadze (Georgian: ლაშა ტალახაძე; Georgian pronunciation: [laʃa tʼalaχadze]; born 2 October 1993) is a Georgian weightlifter, holding the all-time world records independent of weight category in the snatch (225 kg, 496 lb), the clean and jerk (267 kg, 589 lb), and the total (492 kg, 1,085 lb) since 2021.
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Lasha Talakhadze (Georgian: ლაშა ტალახაძე; Georgian pronunciation: [laʃa tʼalaχadze]; born 2 October 1993) is a Georgian weightlifter, holding the all-time world records independent of weight category in the snatch (225 kg, 496 lb), the clean and jerk (267 kg, 589 lb), and the total (492 kg, 1,085 lb) since 2021.
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Lasha Talakhadze (Georgian: ლაშა ტალახაძე; Georgian pronunciation: [laʃa tʼalaχadze]; born 2 October 1993) is a Georgian weightlifter, holding the all-time world records independent of weight category in the snatch (225 kg, 496 lb), the clean and jerk (267 kg, 589 lb), and the total (492 kg, 1,085 lb) since 2021.
Wikipedia article on Lasha Talakhadze, lead sentence, nationality
Lasha Talakhadze (Georgian: ლაშა ტალახაძე; Georgian pronunciation: [laʃa tʼalaχadze]; born 2 October 1993) is a Georgian weightlifter, holding the all-time world records independent of weight category in the snatch (225 kg, 496 lb), the clean and jerk (267 kg, 589 lb), and the total (492 kg, 1,085 lb) since 2021.
Wikipedia article on Lasha Talakhadze, lead section, career summary
Talakhadze is a three-time Olympic champion, seven-time world champion, and seven-time European champion competing in the super-heavyweight category (105 kg + until 2018 and 109 kg + starting in 2018 after the International Weightlifting Federation reorganized the categories).
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Lasha Talakhadze (Georgian: ლაშა ტალახაძე; Georgian pronunciation: [laʃa tʼalaχadze]; born 2 October 1993) is a Georgian weightlifter, holding the all-time world records independent of weight category in the snatch (225 kg, 496 lb), the clean and jerk (267 kg, 589 lb), and the total (492 kg, 1,085 lb) since 2021.
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Lasha Talakhadze (Georgian: ლაშა ტალახაძე; Georgian pronunciation: [laʃa tʼalaχadze]; born 2 October 1993) is a Georgian weightlifter, holding the all-time world records independent of weight category in the snatch (225 kg, 496 lb), the clean and jerk (267 kg, 589 lb), and the total (492 kg, 1,085 l
Competed In: 2016 Summer Olympics, Article text (competition)
At the 2016 Olympics he completed a snatch of 215 kg to break the world record of 214 kg set by Behdad Salimi (who took the record back with 216 kg, equaling the all-time highest set by Antonio Krastev of Bulgaria in 1987).
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