Ritvars Suharevs

Ritvars Suharevs
Personal information
Nationality Latvia
Born (1999-01-11) 11 January 1999 (age 25)
Dobele, Latvia
Height1.62 m (5 ft 4 in)
Weight80.90 kg (178.4 lb)[1]
Sport
Country Latvia
SportWeightlifting
Event–81 kg
Coached byEduards Andruškevičs
Achievements and titles
Personal bests
  • Snatch: 162 kg (2019)
  • Clean & jerk: 192 kg (2019)
  • Total: 354 kg (2019)
Medal record
Representing  Latvia
European Championships
Gold medal – first place 2023 Yerevan –73 kg
Bronze medal – third place 2024 Sofia –73 kg
Bronze medal – third place 2021 Moscow –81 kg
Bronze medal – third place 2019 Batumi –81 kg
European Junior Championships
Silver medal – second place 2016 Eilat –77 kg
Silver medal – second place 2015 Klaipėda –77 kg
World Youth Championships
Silver medal – second place 2015 Lima –69 kg
European Youth Championships
Gold medal – first place 2016 Nowy Tomyśl –77 kg
Gold medal – first place 2015 Landskrona –69 kg
Gold medal – first place 2014 Ciechanów –62 kg
Gold medal – first place 2013 Klaipėda –56 kg
Junior World Championships
Gold medal – first place 2018 Tashkent –77 kg

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]

Career

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]

In August 2024, Suharevs competed in the men's 73 kg event at the 2024 Summer Olympics held in Paris, France. He failed two attempts to lift 147 kg in the Snatch and finished the competition with no result. During the Olympics he suffered a should injury.[6]

Major results

Year Venue Weight Snatch (kg) Clean & Jerk (kg) Total Rank
1 2 3 Rank 1 2 3 Rank
Summer Olympics
2021 Tokyo, Japan 81 kg 158 158 163 — 190 195 198 — 358 6
2024 Paris, France 73 kg 147 147 — — — — — — DNF —
World Championships
2018 Ashgabat, Turkmenistan 81 kg 153 156 159 6 184 185 191 15 344 11
2019 Pattaya, Thailand 81 kg 154 158 160 16 188 192 200 11 346 12
2022 Bogotá, Colombia 73 kg 143 143 146 16 172 172 176 15 319 14
2023 Riyadh, Saudi Arabia 73 kg 150 154 156 3rd place, bronze medalist(s) 178 178 181 — — —
IWF World Cup
2024 Phuket, Thailand 73 kg 151 154 157 5 178 184 187 9 341 6
European Championships
2016 Førde, Norway 77 kg 143 147 150 8 167 171 177 16 321 12
2017 Split, Croatia 77 kg 145 150 154 8 175 180 185 8 335 8
2018 Bucharest, Romania 77 kg 150 150 156 3rd place, bronze medalist(s) 176 181 186 5 337 4
2019 Batumi, Georgia 81 kg 155 160 162 1st place, gold medalist(s) 183 187 192 5 354 3rd place, bronze medalist(s)
Junior World Weightlifting Championships
2017 Tokyo, Japan 77 kg 147 151 154 3rd place, bronze medalist(s) 175 180 184 6 334 4
2018 Tashkent, Uzbekistan 77 kg 148 152 156 1st place, gold medalist(s) 175 180 185 1st place, gold medalist(s) 336 1st place, gold medalist(s)

References

  1. ^ "Weightlifting. Men's 81 kg. Group A. Protocol" (PDF). olympics.com. Archived from the original (PDF) on 31 July 2021. Retrieved 31 July 2021.
  2. ^ PDF listing of 2018 Group B world championship entrants in 81 kg
  3. ^ "IWRP - Weightlifting Database". iwrp.net. Retrieved 30 July 2017.
  4. ^ "EWFED Result Database". result.ewfed.com. Retrieved 30 July 2017.
  5. ^ DELFI (6 December 2016). "Svarcēlāju Suharevu tikai kilograms šķir no Eiropas junioru čempionāta zelta". DELFI (in Latvian). Retrieved 30 July 2017.
  6. ^ "Ритвар Сухарев на олимпиаде в Париже остался без результата". Rus.LSM.lv (in Russian). 8 August 2024. Retrieved 16 August 2024.


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