Iran’s Alireza Yousefi Sets IWF Junior Record
TEHRAN (Tasnim) – Iran’s Alireza Yousefi set a new record on the final day of the 2023 Asian Weightlifting Championships on Saturday.
The superheavyweight won the silver in clean and jerk of the Asian championships with 246kg and bettered his personal record by seven kilograms.
Yousefi finished in fifth place in the category with a total of 436kg.
In the +109kg weight class, Bahrain’s Gor Minasyan won the gold medal with 464kg and silver and bronze medals went to Uzbekistan’s Rustam Djangabaev (437kg) and Akbar Djuraev (437kg), respectively.