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.[2]
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| Nationality |  Latvia | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Born | 11 January 1999 Dobele, Latvia | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Height | 1.62 m (5 ft 4 in) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Weight | 80.90 kg (178.4 lb)[1] | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Country | Latvia | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Sport | Weightlifting | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Event | –81 kg | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Coached by | Eduards Andruškevičs | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Medal record
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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.[3] 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.[4] At the 2016 European Junior Championships, Ritvars came second in the −77kg class, finishing only a kilogram behind gold medalist Davit Hovhannisyan.[5]
Major results
| Year | Venue | Weight | Snatch (kg) | Clean & Jerk (kg) | Total | Rank | ||||||
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| 1 | 2 | 3 | Rank | 1 | 2 | 3 | Rank | |||||
| European Championships | ||||||||||||
| 2016 |  Førde, Norway | 77 kg | 143 | 147 | 150 | 8 | 167 | 171 | 16 | 321 | 12 | |
| 2017 |  Split, Croatia | 77 kg | 145 | 150 | 8 | 175 | 180 | 185 | 8 | 335 | 8 | |
| 2018 |  Bucharest, Romania | 77 kg | 150 | 156 |  | 176 | 181 | 5 | 337 | 4 | ||
| 2019 |  Batumi, Georgia | 81 kg | 155 | 160 | 162 |  | 183 | 187 | 192 | 5 | 354 | |
| Junior World Weightlifting Championships | ||||||||||||
| 2017 |  Tokyo, Japan | 77 kg | 147 | 151 | 154 | | 175 | 180 | 6 | 334 | 4 | |
| 2018 |  Tashkent, Uzbekistan | 77 kg | 148 | 152 | 156 | | 175 | 180 | | 336 | | |
References
External links
- Ritvars Suharevs at the International Weightlifting Federation
- Ritvars Suharevs at the International Weightlifting Results Project
- Ritvars Suharevs at Olympics.com
- Ritvars Suharevs at Olympedia
- Ritvars Suharevs at the Latvijas Olimpiskā komiteja (in Latvian) (English translation)
- Ritvars Suharevs at the Latvijas Olimpiskā vienība at the Wayback Machine (archived 18 September 2016) (in Latvian)
