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Karlos Nasar

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Karlos Nasar
Personal information
Nationality Bulgaria
Born (2004-05-12) 12 May 2004 (age 20)
Paris, France
Height180 cm (5 ft 11 in)
Weight89 kg (196 lb)
Sport
Country Bulgaria
SportWeightlifting
Weight class89 kg
ClubCherven Bryag
Coached byIliyan Iliev
Medal record
Representing  Bulgaria
Men's weightlifting
Olympic Games
Gold medal – first place 2024 Paris 89 kg
World Championships
Gold medal – first place 2021 Tashkent 81 kg
European Championships
Gold medal – first place 2023 Yerevan 89 kg
Gold medal – first place 2024 Sofia 89 kg
Silver medal – second place 2021 Moscow 81 kg
Silver medal – second place 2022 Tirana 89 kg
IWF World Cup
Gold medal – first place 2024 Phuket 89 kg
IWF Grand Prix
Gold medal – first place 2023 Doha 89 kg
World Youth Championships
Gold medal – first place 2019 Las Vegas 73 kg
IWF Youth World Cup Online
Gold medal – first place 2020 Peru 81 kg
European Youth Weightlifting Championships
Gold medal – first place 2018 San Donato Milanese 69 kg
Gold medal – first place 2019 Eilat 81 kg

Karlos May Nasar (Bulgarian: Карлос Насар; born 12 May 2004) is a Bulgarian weightlifter who is an Olympic, world and two-time European champion and one of the youngest weightlifting world record holders ever.

Early life

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Nasar was born in Paris to a Bulgarian mother and a Lebanese father.[1] He has two brothers, Lazarus and Ivan.[2]

Career

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Olympic games

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In Nasar’s Olympic debut, he won the 2024 Olympic men's 89 kg event, breaking eight World and Olympic records in the process. In the 89 kg final, he first lifted 213 kg in the clean & jerk for a new OR, and then proceeded to a World (and Olympic, and Junior) best mark of 224 kg. Adding these results to the 180 kg successful attempt in the snatch, he established an OR in the total (393 kg) and then a World, Olympic, and World Junior global mark of 404 kg. Out of the 13 records in the male competition in Paris, he was responsible for eight of them.

World Championships

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At 17 years old, he broke the world record in the men’s 81 kg Clean & Jerk event with 208 kg to win the 2021 World Weightlifting Championships,[3] simultaneously setting the junior and youth world records with a world record 374 kg total. He became the third youngest world champion in the history of weightlifting at the age of 17 years and 214 days, beaten by another Bulgarian Sevdalin Marinov, who became the world champion in the 52 kg in 1985 when he was 17 years and 47 days old, and Ilya Ilyin, who became world champion in the 85 kg class at 17 years and 183 days old.

At 18 years old, he broke the world record in the men's 89 kg Clean & Jerk event with 220 kg to win the Clean & Jerk event at the 2022 World Weightlifting Championships held in Bogotá, Colombia.[4] He became the only male weightlifter to hold world records in two different categories.

European Championships

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In 2021, at the age of 16, he competed at the European Weightlifting Championships in the 81 kg category,[5] winning the silver in the snatch and in the total and the gold medal in the clean & jerk portion with a new European record of 206 kg ER. It was a fight between Antonino Pizzolato and him in which the Italian won with 1 kg difference in total.

In April 2023, at just 18 years old, at the 2023 European Weightlifting Championships in Yerevan, Armenia, he won the gold medal in the Clean & Jerk and in the Total, and the silver medal in the Snatch in the 89-kilogram division, where he broke five world records.[6] Nasar’s staggering 221-kilogram (487.2-pound) clean & jerk record lift allowed him to break the:[7]

  • Junior World Record Clean & Jerk
  • Junior World Record Total
  • Senior World Record Clean & Jerk
  • Senior World Record Total

In addition, Nasar’s gold-medal-winning, record-setting Total of 395 kilograms was built with his best competition snatch of 174 kilograms (383.6 pounds). That snatch was also a new Junior World Record, his fifth on the same day.[8] Nasar's result in Yerevan made him Best weightlifter of the European Championship in all categories. Nasar scored 1000 points on the Robi points system. Lasha Talahadze is in second place with 883.5 points, and Garik Karapetyan is third with 847.6 points.

Major results

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Year[9] Venue Weight Snatch (kg) Clean & Jerk (kg) Total Rank
1 2 3 Rank 1 2 3 Rank
Olympic Games
2024 Paris, France 89 kg 173 177 180 — 213 224 WR, OR — — 404 WR, OR 1st place, gold medalist(s)
World Championships
2021 Tashkent, Uzbekistan 81 kg 163 166 EJR 169 2nd place, silver medalist(s) 200 205 208 WR 1st place, gold medalist(s) 374 WJR 1st place, gold medalist(s)
2022 Bogota, Colombia 89 kg 173 173 174 — 212 217 220 WR 1st place, gold medalist(s) — —
European Championships
2021 Moscow, Russia 81 kg 158 162 163 EJR 2nd place, silver medalist(s) 194 200 206 ER 1st place, gold medalist(s) 369 EJR 2nd place, silver medalist(s)
2022 Tirana, Albania 89 kg 171 WJR 175 176 3rd place, bronze medalist(s) 203 211 WJR 217 2nd place, silver medalist(s) 382 WJR 2nd place, silver medalist(s)
2023 Yerevan, Armenia 89 kg 165 170 174 WJR 2nd place, silver medalist(s) 205 221 WR — 1st place, gold medalist(s) 395 WR 1st place, gold medalist(s)
2024 Sofia, Bulgaria 89 kg 168 173 176 WJR 1st place, gold medalist(s) 208 215 — 1st place, gold medalist(s) 391 1st place, gold medalist(s)
IWF World Cup
2024 Phuket, Thailand 89 kg 170 176 181 WJR 2nd place, silver medalist(s) 215 224 224 1st place, gold medalist(s) 396 WJR 1st place, gold medalist(s)
IWF Grand Prix
2023 Doha, Qatar 89 kg 165 170 175 6 205 211 223 WR 1st place, gold medalist(s) 393 1st place, gold medalist(s)
World Youth Weightlifting Championships
2019 Las Vegas, United States 73 kg 123 127 130 2nd place, silver medalist(s) 154 154 161 1st place, gold medalist(s) 291 1st place, gold medalist(s)
Youth World Cup Online
2020 Lima, Peru 81 kg 150 150 155 1st place, gold medalist(s) 180 190 — 1st place, gold medalist(s) 345 1st place, gold medalist(s)
European Youth Weightlifting Championships
2018 San Donato Milanese, Italy 69 kg 105 109 113 1st place, gold medalist(s) 130 140 147 1st place, gold medalist(s) 260 1st place, gold medalist(s)
2019 Eilat, Israel 81 kg 125 133 140 1st place, gold medalist(s) 150 160 170 1st place, gold medalist(s) 300 1st place, gold medalist(s)

Best Lifts

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Best Competition Lifts

Clean and Jerk: 226 kg || 2024 || Bundesliga

Snatch: 181 kg || 2024 || IWF World Cup

Best training lifts on video

Back Squat: 290 kg || Personal Instagram Post [24/06/2024]

Front Squat: 240 kg x2 || Personal Instagram Post [28/11/2023]

Snatch: 185 kg || Personal Instagram Post [12/07/2024]

Clean: 230 kg || Personal Instagram Post [15/06/2024]

References

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  1. ^ "Карлос Насар вицешампион в кат. 89 кг". bnr.bg. Retrieved 4 August 2022.
  2. ^ Manova, Tanya (25 February 2024). "Насар започнал като шахматист" (in Bulgarian). telegraph.bg. Retrieved 7 August 2024.
  3. ^ "IWF Results". IWF.net. Retrieved 12 December 2021.
  4. ^ Oliver, Brian (11 December 2022). "Teenager Nasar gets world record after bomb-out at weightlifting World Championships". InsideTheGames.biz. Retrieved 12 December 2022.
  5. ^ "2021 European Championships Start Book" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2021-04-07. Retrieved 2021-12-12.
  6. ^ "Karlos Nasar breaks the world record, takes gold at the 2023 European Weightlifting Championships".
  7. ^ "Weightlifter Karlos Nasar (89KG) Breaks 5 World Records at 2023 European Championships". 21 April 2023.
  8. ^ "Weightlifter Karlos Nasar (89KG) Sets Multiple New World Records at 2023 European Weightlifting Championships". 20 April 2023.
  9. ^ IWF.net. "IWF Results". Retrieved 1 October 2021.
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