Karlos Nasar

Karlos Nasar

Personal information
Nationality	Bulgaria
Born	(2004-05-12) 12 May 2004 Paris, France
Height	180 cm (5 ft 11 in)
Weight	89 kg (196 lb)
Sport
Country	Bulgaria
Sport	Weightlifting
Weight class	89 kg
Club	SKVT Start Cherven Bryag
Coached by	Iliyan Iliev
Medal record Representing Bulgaria Men's weightlifting Olympic Games 2024 Paris 89 kg World Championships 2021 Tashkent 81 kg 2024 Manama 89 kg European Championships 2023 Yerevan 89 kg 2024 Sofia 89 kg 2021 Moscow 81 kg 2022 Tirana 89 kg IWF World Cup 2024 Phuket 89 kg IWF Grand Prix 2023 Doha 89 kg World Youth Championships 2019 Las Vegas 73 kg IWF Youth World Cup Online 2020 Peru 81 kg European Youth Weightlifting Championships 2018 San Donato Milanese 69 kg 2019 Eilat 81 kg

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

Early life

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

Career

Olympic games

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

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, 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. He became the only male weightlifter to hold world records in two different categories.

In December 2024, he won his second World Championship in Manama, Bahrain setting a new snatch senior record of 183 kg and a also a new total senior record of 405 kg, surprassing for the second time the 400 mark in category 89 kg. Amazingly, those were junior world records too because, Nasar is still only 20 years old.

European Championships

In 2021, at the age of 16, he competed at the European Weightlifting Championships in the 81 kg category, 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. Nasar’s staggering 221-kilogram (487.2-pound) clean & jerk record lift allowed him to break the:

• 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. 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

Year	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 OR	—	213	224 WR, OR	—	—	404 WR, OR
World Championships
2021	Tashkent, Uzbekistan	81 kg	163	166 EJR	169		200	205	208 WR		374 WJR
2022	Bogota, Colombia	89 kg	173	173	174	—	212	217	220 WR		—	—
2024	Manama, Bahrain	89 kg	170	176	183 WR		210	222	225		405 WR
European Championships
2021	Moscow, Russia	81 kg	158	162	163 EJR		194	200	206 ER		369 EJR
2022	Tirana, Albania	89 kg	171 WJR	175	176		203	211 WJR	217		382 WJR
2023	Yerevan, Armenia	89 kg	165	170	174 WJR		205	221 WR	—		395 WR
2024	Sofia, Bulgaria	89 kg	168	173	176 WJR		208	215	—		391
IWF World Cup
2024	Phuket, Thailand	89 kg	170	176	181 WJR		215	224	224		396 WJR
IWF Grand Prix
2023	Doha, Qatar	89 kg	165	170	175	6	205	211	223 WR		393
World Youth Weightlifting Championships
2019	Las Vegas, United States	73 kg	123	127	130		154	154	161		291
Youth World Cup Online
2020	Lima, Peru	81 kg	150	150	155		180	190	—		345
European Youth Weightlifting Championships
2018	San Donato Milanese, Italy	69 kg	105	109	113		130	140	147		260
2019	Eilat, Israel	81 kg	125	133	140		150	160	170		300

Best Lifts

IWF Competition Lifts
	Snatch	Clean & Jerk
Lifted	183 kg (WR)	224 kg (WR)
Event	2024 World Weightlifting Championships	2024 Olympic Games

On Video Lifts
	Snatch	Clean & Jerk	Back Squat	Front Squat	Clean	Jerk
Lifted	185 kg	230 kg	290 kg	240 kg x2	230 kg	??
Event	2024 Bundesliga	2024 Bundesliga	Personal Instagram Post [24/06/2024]	Personal Instagram Post [28/11/2023]	Personal Instagram Post [15/06/2024]

External links

• Karlos Nasar at the International Weightlifting Federation
• Karlos Nasar at IAT Database Weightlifting (in German)
• Karlos Nasar at Olympics.com