Ritvars Suharevs

Ritvars Suharevs (born 11 January, 1999 in Dobele) is a Latvian weightlifter competing in the −77 kg category.

Ritvars Suharevs
Personal information
Nationality  Latvia
Born (1999-01-11) January 11, 1999
Dobele, Latvia
Residence Ventspils, Latvia
Height 1.62 m (5 ft 4 in)
Weight 76.55 kg (168.8 lb)
Sport
Country  Latvia
Sport Weightlifting
Event(s) –77 kg
Coached by Eduards Andruškevičs
Achievements and titles
Personal best(s)
  • Snatch: 154 kg (2016)
  • Clean & jerk: 185 kg (2017)
  • Total: 335 kg (2017)
Medal record
Representing  Latvia
European Junior Championships
2016 Eilat –77 kg
2015 Klaipėda –77 kg
World Youth Championships
2015 Lima –69 kg
European Youth Championships
2016 Nowy Tomyśl –77 kg
2015 Landskrona –69 kg
2014 Ciechanów –62 kg
2013 Klaipėda –56 kg

Career

Born in Dobele but raised in Ventspils, 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.[1]

Next 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.[2]

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

References

  1. ↑ "IWRP - Weightlifting Database". iwrp.net. Retrieved 2017-07-30.
  2. ↑ "EWFED Result Database". result.ewfed.com. Retrieved 2017-07-30.
  3. ↑ 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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