2024 Olympic Games, Day 3 Recap – Men’s 89 kg: Great Triumph of Bulgarian Karlos Nasar with Two Olympic Records

The Olympic Games are already on its equator where the highly masterful weightlifters are going to defeat their contenders from the very first session. Day 3 is going to be eye-grabbing as the next highly competitive weight division is on the schedule today. 

Twelve powerful lifters were competing at the South Paris Arena 6 this evening, making their marks on the history of Olympic weightlifting.

This competition became one of the most emotional and fierce ones since it gathered the maximum number of legendary lifters. It was supposed to be a mind-blowing performance. So, stay with us and track the most serious lifters creating a history of the 89-kg weight class.

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Athletes’ presentation

Today twelve stellar weightlifters were creating the whole history for their countries performing on the podium in Paris. We distinguished four of the division’s most talented and strong contenders.

NASAR Karlos May, a Bulgarian weightlifter who is one of the youngest world record holders ever. He’s a two-time gold and two-time silver medalist at the European Championships. He won 2 consecutive World championships in 2021 and 2022, as well as the overall World title in 2021 at the age of 17.

He set Senior and Junior world records in C&J and Total at the 2023 Europeans, and notched a Junior world record in the Snatch in 2024. Being a first-time Olympian, he’s considered the supposed winner in the category.

PIZZOLATO Antonino from Italy is a three-time gold medalist and silver medalist at the European Champs in 2019, 2021, and 2022. In 2022 he won three golds at the event, setting 89-kg world records in the C&J and total. He competed in the 2020 Olympic Games in Tokyo in the 81-kg weight division and won the bronze medal. His all-time motto is “In competitions it is not the strongest who wins, but he who is most stubborn.”.

Columbian LOPEZ LOPEZ Yeison, is a silver medalist at Grand Prix II in Doha, making a great return to weightlifting. He’s a first-time Olympian and ranks seventh overall on his World Championships debut in 2023. At youth and junior level, he won multiple world and Pan-American titles.

VALLENILLA SANCHEZ Keydomar
He’s a Tokyo 2020 silver medalist in the 96 kg weight category. Also won medals at every World championship since 2018, and is a two-time overall Pan American champion and 2023 Pan American Games champion.

They presented a mind-blowing performance with extreme weights increasing with each attempt.

Snatch

The performance in the Snatch exercise started from 143 kg. The atmosphere was tense as the supposed leaders ordered incredible weights starting from a 170-kg mark for their openers.

Here are the names of weightlifters who managed to get to the Top 6:

4: Pizzolato Antonino (ITA) – 172 kg
5: Karapetyan Andranik (ARM) – 170 kg
6: Javadi Aliabadi M. (IRI) – 168 kg

Top 3 leaders’ results

Now let’s analyze the Top 3 lifters’ performance:

1: Karlos Nasar (BUL)  – 180 kg
2: Lopez Yeison (COL) – 180 kg
3: Robu Marin (MDA) – 175 kg

Robu Marin from Moldova ended this session with the following lifts: 170 kg on the first lift he did perfectly, the second – 175 kg, which resulted in a good lift. He refused to use the last attempt, thus becoming a bronze medalist in Snatch.

The second place went to Lopez Yeison from Colombia. He made the first attempt at 175 kg, which resulted in a green light. He made a 180 kg attempt on the second attempt, but didn’t cope with it. He finished his performance with the same 180 kg, which he lifted successfully.

The first place went to Karlos Nasar from Bulgaria who snatched 173 kg at the first attempt, 177 kg at the second, and ordered 180 kg on the third attempt that brought him gold.

Snatch results:

Summarizing the Snatch session, we can confirm that the Bulgarian Weightlifting school is highly competitive and efficient. Karlos Nasar proves once again that he is a great powerhouse who has no opponents in the category. This time he equaled the Olympic standard showing 3/3 successful lifts, being the only contender who did all attempts with green lights.

However, his opponent Antonino Pizzolato couldn’t show better results, ranking fourth that was eight kilos less than leaders.

Clean & Jerk

The contest in the Clean & Jerk started with a weight of 182 kg. This insane session brought us the following Top 6 lifters who have already proved their lifting skills:

4: Robu Marin (MDA) – 208 kg
5: Javadi Aliabadi M. (IRI) – 204 kg
6: Yu Dongju (KOR) – 203 kg

Top 3 leaders’ results

Let’s describe the performance of the Top 3 lifters:

1: Karlos Nasar (BUL) – 224 kg
2: Pizzolato Antonino (ITA) – 212 kg
3: Lopez Yeison (COL) – 210 kg

Yeison Lopez from Colombia secured third place in this historical battle: his first attempt to lift 205 kg resulted in no lift; on the second attempt he managed to cope with the same 205 kg. Finally, he reanimated and did the last attempt of 210 kg.

The silver medalist in this battle became Antonino Pizzolato from Italy. Today he started his performance with 212 kg but couldn’t lift it from the first attempt, then he repeated 212-kg lift, but again it resulted with no lift due to pressout. Finally, he accumulated all his strength to lift 212 kg and he managed to secure second spot from the third attempt.

Karlos Nasar from Bulgaria became the winner in the 89-kg weight division. He started from 213 kg which he lifted easily, then lifted mind-blowing 224 kg on the second attempt, deciding to refuse from the last attempt. This time he shattered a new Olympic and World record in Clean & Jerk.

Clean & Jerk results:

This round impressed us by the unbelievable performance of the Bulgarian weightlifter Karlos Nasar who set another Olympic record in the Clean & Jerk round. This talented 20-year-old lifter succeeded in lifting 224 kg surpassing his previous result by one kilo. It was 12 kilos more compared to his all-time rival from Italy Nino Pizzolato.

Speaking about the rest of the contenders, the Egyptian lifter withdrew from the competition, while Canadian Santavy bombed out with no result. Overall, the performance in Clean & Jerk was quite tense and there were much more red lights in the round compared to the Snatch.

Total results

• 🥇 Karlos Nasar (BUL) – 404 kg
• 🥈 Lopez Yeison (COL) – 390 kg
• 🥉 Pizzolato Antonino (ITA) – 384 kg
• 4 Robu Marin (MDA) – 383 kg
• 5 Javadi Aliabadi M. (IRI) – 372 kg
• 6 You Dongju (KOR) – 371 kg

The gold medalist in the category was Karlos Nasar who did 404 kg overall. He set a new Olympic and World record in total, improving his result by 9 kilos.

The silver medalist was Yeison Lopez from Colombia who finished with 390 kg, falling behind the winner by 14 kilos.

Antonino Pizzolato from Italy took bronze thanks to his total of 384 kg.

Final thoughts

Today’s performance in the Men’s 89 kg category proved that here we have a stable list of all-time leaders who reign at the top of the category’s list. 

What about new records? A great Bulgarian weightlifter Karlos Nasar proved his impeccable mastery by shattering two Olympic and World records in Clean & Jerk and total.

We witnessed a legendary competition of the great European and Latin American powerhouses who succeeded to occupy the spot in Top 6. They were trying to outshine and did their best lifts to enlist their performances in Olympic history.

Keep watching our videos on our channels to see the performances of heavyweights who are targeted to become Olympic stars this time.

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