Aleksey Lovchev

Aleksey Lovchev
Personal information
Birth name Aleksey Vladimirovich Lovchev
Nationality Russian
Born (1989-06-13) 13 June 1989
Height 1.88 m (6 ft 2 in)[1]
Weight 140.46 kg (309.7 lb)[1]
Sport
Country  Russia
Sport Weightlifting
Event(s) +105kg
Achievements and titles
Personal best(s)
  • Snatch: 212 kg (2014)
  • Clean and jerk: 264 kg (2015, WR)
  • Total: 475 kg (2015, WR)
Updated on 29 November 2015.

Aleksey Vladimirovich Lovchev (Алексе́й Влади́мирович Ло́вчев; born 13 June 1989) is a Russian weightlifter.[2]

Career

He competed at the 2013 World Championships in the Men's +105 kg, winning the Bronze medal and the European Championships 2014, winning the Gold medal in the Snatch, Clean and Jerk and total.[3]

In the 2015 World Championships he competed in the +105kg category, winning gold medals in the Snatch, Clean and Jerk, and Total, with a 211 kg Snatch and 264 kg world record Clean and Jerk for a world record 475 kg total.[4] This total tied the all time record total set by Leonid Taranenko in 1988.[5][6] However, Lovchev has since been found to have failed doping tests.[7]

Major results

Year Venue Weight Snatch (kg) Clean & Jerk (kg) Total Rank
1 2 3 Rank 1 2 3 Rank
World Championships
2013 Poland Wrocław, Poland +105 kg 1911962003rd230240--54303rd
2014 Kazakhstan Almaty, Kazakhstan +105 kg 205205205--2452502571st----
2015 United States Houston, United States +105 kg 2002062111st2422482641st4751st
European Championships
2014 Israel Tel Aviv, Israel +105 kg 1921972051st2352452521st4571st
Summer Universiade
2011 China Shenzhen, China 105 kg 170176176320020521333753rd

See also

References

  1. 1 2 http://ironworld.ru/articles/18089/
  2. "Lovchev, Aleksei". International Weightlifting Federation. Retrieved 18 April 2014.
  3. "Results: European Senior Weightlifting Championships Tel Aviv, April 2014". European Weightlifting Federation. Retrieved 18 April 2014.
  4. "Results by Events: 2015 IWF WORLD CHAMPIONSHIPS". International Weightlifting Federation. Retrieved 28 November 2015.
  5. Taranenko lifted 476.0 kg in the total, but for the competition results, the weight was normalized to the standard interval of 2.5 kg.
  6. Taranenko's record was nullified in 1993 when the IWF restructured its weight classes.
  7. http://www.allthingsgym.com/2015wwc/

External links

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