Watch This 17-Year-Old Weightlifter Snatch 175kg
It goes without saying that Karlos Nasar is no ordinary 17 year old. Having won back-to-back European Youth Weightlifting Championships titles and having been crowned Youth World Weightlifting champion back in 2019, he's a special athlete. But to match the current world record in the snatch, and to do it before his 18th birthday. Wow.
But Bulgarian Nasar did just that when he shifted a 175kg snatch, matching the current world record for 81kg competitors that is currently held by Li Dayin of China. Nasar's effort was posted to Reddit, and is even more impressive given that only three men in the 81kg class have ever snatched more than 170kg in competition.
The first man to do it was two-time Olympic gold medalist Lu Xiaojun of China, who lifted a 172kg snatch at the 2018 Weightlifting World Championships in Ashgabat, Turkmenistan. That was then beat, at the same contest, by Mohamed Ehab of Egypt, whose 173kg lift advanced it by a single kilogram.
Xiaojun then reclaimed the record, at the rescheduled 2020 Asian Weighlifting Championships in Tashkent, Uzbekistan, with a 174kg lift. But again, at the same contest, Xiaojun's teammate Li Dayin snatched the record from him with a 175kg effort.
Although Nasar didn't disclose his bodyweight at the time of his 175kg lift and completed the lift in training, not in competition, it does show the kind of lifts we can expect of him in the future.
Our prediction: don't expect the record to stay at 175kg for too long.
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