Sohrab Moradi lifted 189 kilograms on his way to winning gold in the men’s 94kg weightlifting category at the 2018 Asian Games.
His achievement broke the world record of 188kg snatch record set by Greece's Akakios Kakiasvilis in 1999. It was the oldest standing record of the current weight classes (since 1998).
The reigning Olympic champion served a two-year doping ban in 2013 after testing positive for banned painkiller methadone but returned to dominate the sport following his suspension.
“I wanted to break the world record as it was the only one I didn’t have and this was my last chance,” Moradi said as cited in South China Morning Post.
He beamed, “I feel very happy to know that my name will always remain on all the 94kg world records.”
Moradi's lift could stay on the record books in forever as after Asiad; all the weight classes will change beginning with November's world championships.
Harry Warganegara Harun, deputy I of the Indonesian Asian Games Organizing Committee (INASGOC), said up to Monday (27/8), there had been five world record-breaking achievements in the 2018 Asian Games, including Moradi's record.
Source: asiangames2018.id, SCMP, Channel News Asia