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Karlos Nasar

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Karlos Nasar
Personal information
Nationality Bulgaria
Born (2004-05-12) 12 May 2004 (age 20)
Paris, France
Height180 cm (5 ft 11 in)
Weight89 kg (196 lb)
Sport
Country Bulgaria
SportWeightlifting
Weight class89 kg
ClubSKVT Start Cherven Bryag
Coached byIliyan Iliev
Medal record
Representing  Bulgaria
Men's weightlifting
Olympic Games
Gold medal – first place 2024 Paris 89 kg
World Championships
Gold medal – first place 2021 Tashkent 81 kg
Gold medal – first place 2024 Manama 89 kg
European Championships
Silver medal – second place 2021 Moscow 81 kg
Silver medal – second place 2022 Tirana 89 kg
Gold medal – first place 2023 Yerevan 89 kg
Gold medal – first place 2024 Sofia 89 kg
IWF World Cup
Gold medal – first place 2024 Phuket 89 kg
IWF Grand Prix
Gold medal – first place 2023 Doha 89 kg
World Youth Championships
Gold medal – first place 2019 Las Vegas 73 kg
IWF Youth World Cup Online
Gold medal – first place 2020 Peru 81 kg
European Youth Weightlifting Championships
Gold medal – first place 2018 San Donato Milanese 69 kg
Gold medal – first place 2019 Eilat 81 kg

Karlos May Nasar (Bulgarian: Карлос Насар; born 12 May 2004) is a Bulgarian weightlifter who is an Olympic, two-time World and two-time European champion and one of the youngest weightlifting world record holders ever.

Early life

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Nasar was born in Paris to a Bulgarian mother and a Lebanese father.[1] He has two brothers, Lazarus and Ivan.[2]

Career

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Olympic games

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In Nasar’s Olympic debut, he won the 2024 Olympic men's 89 kg event, breaking eight World and Olympic records in the process. In the 89 kg final, he first lifted 213 kg in the clean & jerk for a new OR, and then proceeded to a World (and Olympic, and Junior) best mark of 224 kg. Adding these results to the 180 kg successful attempt in the snatch, he established an OR in the total (393 kg) and then a World, Olympic, and World Junior global mark of 404 kg. Out of the 13 records in the male competition in Paris, he was responsible for eight of them.

World Championships

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At 17 years old, he broke the world record in the men’s 81 kg Clean & Jerk event with 208 kg to win the 2021 World Weightlifting Championships,[3] simultaneously setting the junior and youth world records with a world record 374 kg total. He became the third youngest world champion in the history of weightlifting at the age of 17 years and 214 days, beaten by another Bulgarian Sevdalin Marinov, who became the world champion in the 52 kg in 1985 when he was 17 years and 47 days old, and Ilya Ilyin, who became world champion in the 85 kg class at 17 years and 183 days old.

At 18 years old, he broke the world record in the men's 89 kg Clean & Jerk event with 220 kg to win the Clean & Jerk event at the 2022 World Weightlifting Championships held in Bogotá, Colombia.[4] He became the only male weightlifter to hold world records in two different categories.

In December 2024, he won his second World Championship in Manama, Bahrain setting a new snatch senior record of 183 kg and also a new total senior record of 405 kg, surpassing for the second time the 400 mark in category 89 kg. Amazingly, those were junior world records too because, Nasar is still only 20 years old.

European Championships

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In 2021, at the age of 16, he competed at the European Weightlifting Championships in the 81 kg category,[5] winning the silver in the snatch and in the total and the gold medal in the clean & jerk portion with a new European record of 206 kg ER. It was a fight between Antonino Pizzolato and him in which the Italian won with 1 kg difference in total.

In April 2023, at just 18 years old, at the 2023 European Weightlifting Championships in Yerevan, Armenia, he won the gold medal in the Clean & Jerk and in the Total, and the silver medal in the Snatch in the 89-kilogram division, where he broke five world records.[6] Nasar’s staggering 221-kilogram (487.2-pound) clean & jerk record lift allowed him to break the:[7]

  • Junior World Record Clean & Jerk
  • Junior World Record Total
  • Senior World Record Clean & Jerk
  • Senior World Record Total

In addition, Nasar’s gold-medal-winning, record-setting Total of 395 kilograms was built with his best competition snatch of 174 kilograms (383.6 pounds). That snatch was also a new Junior World Record, his fifth on the same day.[8] Nasar's result in Yerevan made him Best weightlifter of the European Championship in all categories. Nasar scored 1000 points on the Robi points system. Lasha Talahadze is in second place with 883.5 points, and Garik Karapetyan is third with 847.6 points.

World records

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Senior world records

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As of 31.12.2024, still 20 years of age and fully eligible to compete on junior weightlifting level Karlos Nasar has set 10 senior world weightlifting records, each of these of course being also a valid junior world record for the respective category.

Full list of Nasar's senior world records follows:

№ Category up to Discipline Senior world record (kg) Date Competition Place
1 81 kg clean & jerk 208 12.12.2021 2021 World Weightlifting Championships Tashkent, Uzbekistan
2 89 kg clean & jerk 220 11.12.2022 2022 World Weightlifting Championships Bogota, Colombia
3 89 kg clean & jerk 221 20.04.2023 2023 European Weightlifting Championships Yerevan, Armenia
4 89 kg total 395 20.04.2023 2023 European Weightlifting Championships Yerevan, Armenia
5 89 kg clean & jerk 223 10.12.2023 IWF Grand Prix Doha, Qatar
6 89 kg snatch 181 06.04.2024 IWF World Cup 2024 Phuket, Thailand
7 89 kg clean & jerk 224 09.08.2024 2024 Summer Olympics Paris, France
8 89 kg total 404 09.08.2024 2024 Summer Olympics Paris, France
9 89 kg snatch 183 11.12.2024 2024 World Weightlifting Championships Manama, Bahrain
10 89 kg total 405 11.12.2024 2024 World Weightlifting Championships Manama, Bahrain


As of December 31st, 2024, Karlos Nasar holds the following senior world records:

Category up to Discipline Senior world record (kg) Name Born Country Date Competition Place
89 kg snatch 183 Karlos May Nasar 12.05.2004  Bulgaria 11.12.2024 World Championship Manama, Bahrain
89 kg clean & jerk 224 Karlos May Nasar 12.05.2004  Bulgaria 09.08.2024 Olympic games 2024 Paris, France
89 kg total 405 Karlos May Nasar 12.05.2004  Bulgaria 11.12.2024 World Championship Manama, Bahrain

Junior world records

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As of 31.12.2024 has set twenty junior world records in categories up to 81 kg and up to 89 kg.

№ Category up to Discipline Junior world record (kg) Date Competition Place
1 81 kg clean & jerk 206 07.04.2021 European championship Moscow, Russia
2 81 kg clean & jerk 208 12.12.2021 World championship Tashkent, Uzbekistan
3 81 kg total 374 12.12.2021 World championship Tashkent, Uzbekistan
4 89 kg snatch 171 02.06.2021 European championship Tirana, Albania
5 89 kg clean & jerk 211 02.06.2021 European championship Tirana, Albania
6 89 kg total 374 02.06.2021 European championship Tirana, Albania
7 89 kg total 382 02.06.2021 European championship Tirana, Albania
8 89 kg clean & jerk 212 11.12.2022 World championship Bogota, Colombia
9 89 kg clean & jerk 220 11.12.2022 World championship Bogota, Colombia
10 89 kg snatch 174 20.04.2023 European championship Yerevan, Armenia
11 89 kg clean & jerk 221 20.04.2023 European championship Yerevan, Armenia
12 89 kg total 395 20.04.2023 European championship Yerevan, Armenia
13 89 kg clean & jerk 223 10.12.2023 IWF Grand Prix Doha, Qatar
14 89 kg snatch 176 17.02.2024 European championship Sofia, Bulgaria
15 89 kg clean & jerk 181 06.04.2024 IWF World Cup 2024 Phuket, Thailand
16 89 kg total 396 06.04.2024 IWF World Cup 2024 Phuket, Thailand
17 89 kg clean & jerk 224 09.08.2024 Olympic games Paris, France
18 89 kg total 404 09.08.2024 Olympic games Paris, France
19 89 kg snatch 183 11.12.2024 World championship Manama, Bahrain
20 89 kg total 405 11.12.2024 World championship Manama, Bahrain


As of December 31st, 2024, Karlos Nasar holds the following junior world records:

Category up to Discipline Junior world record (kg) Name Born Country Date Competition Place
81 kg clean & jerk 208 Karlos May Nasar 12.05.2004  Bulgaria 12.12.2021 World Championship Tashkent, Uzbekistan
81 kg total 374 Karlos May Nasar 12.05.2004  Bulgaria 12.12.2021 World Championship Tashkent, Uzbekistan


Category up to Discipline Junior world record (kg) Name Born Country Date Competition Place
89 kg snatch 183 Karlos May Nasar 12.05.2004  Bulgaria 11.12.2024 World Championship Manama, Bahrain
89 kg clean & jerk 224 Karlos May Nasar 12.05.2004  Bulgaria 09.08.2024 Olympic games 2024 Paris, France
89 kg total 405 Karlos May Nasar 12.05.2004  Bulgaria 11.12.2024 World Championship Manama, Bahrain

Youth world records

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Karlos Nasar has achieved twelve youth world records all set at 81 kg category at the European and World Championships in 2021.

№ Category up to Discipline Junior world record (kg) Date Competition Place
1 81 kg snatch 158 07.04.2021 European championship Moscow, Russia
2 81 kg snatch 163 07.04.2021 European championship Moscow, Russia
3 81 kg clean & jerk 194 07.04.2021 European championship Moscow, Russia
4 81 kg clean & jerk 200 07.04.2021 European championship Moscow, Russia
5 81 kg clean & jerk 206 07.04.2021 European championship Moscow, Russia
6 81 kg total 357 07.04.2021 European championship Moscow, Russia
7 81 kg total 363 07.04.2021 European championship Moscow, Russia
8 81 kg total 369 07.04.2021 European championship Moscow, Russia
9 81 kg snatch 166 12.12.2021 World championship Tashkent, Uzbekistan
10 81 kg clean & jerk 208 12.12.2021 World championship Tashkent, Uzbekistan
11 81 kg total 371 12.12.2021 World championship Tashkent, Uzbekistan
12 81 kg total 374 12.12.2021 World championship Tashkent, Uzbekistan


As of December 31st, 2024, Karlos Nasar holds the following youth world records:

Category up to Discipline Youth world record (kg) Name Born Country Date Competition Place
81 kg snatch 166 Karlos May Nasar 12.05.2004  Bulgaria 12.12.2021 World Championship Tashkent, Uzbekistan
81 kg clean & jerk 208 Karlos May Nasar 12.05.2004  Bulgaria 12.12.2021 World Championship Tashkent, Uzbekistan
81 kg total 374 Karlos May Nasar 12.05.2004  Bulgaria 12.12.2021 World Championship Tashkent, Uzbekistan

Major results

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Year[9] Venue Weight Snatch (kg) Clean & Jerk (kg) Total Rank
1 2 3 Rank 1 2 3 Rank
Representing  Bulgaria
Olympic Games
2024 France Paris, France 89 kg 173 177 180 OR — 213 224 WR, OR — — 404 WR, OR 1st place, gold medalist(s)
World Championships
2021 Uzbekistan Tashkent, Uzbekistan 81 kg 163 166 EJR 169 2nd place, silver medalist(s) 200 205 208 WR 1st place, gold medalist(s) 374 WJR 1st place, gold medalist(s)
2022 Colombia Bogotá, Colombia 89 kg 173 173 174 — 212 217 220 WR 1st place, gold medalist(s) — —
2024 Bahrain Manama, Bahrain 89 kg 170 176 183 WR 1st place, gold medalist(s) 210 222 225 1st place, gold medalist(s) 405 WR 1st place, gold medalist(s)
European Championships
2021 Russia Moscow, Russia 81 kg 158 162 163 EJR 2nd place, silver medalist(s) 194 200 206 ER 1st place, gold medalist(s) 369 EJR 2nd place, silver medalist(s)
2022 Albania Tirana, Albania 89 kg 171 WJR 175 176 3rd place, bronze medalist(s) 203 211 WJR 217 2nd place, silver medalist(s) 382 WJR 2nd place, silver medalist(s)
2023 Armenia Yerevan, Armenia 89 kg 165 170 174 WR 2nd place, silver medalist(s) 205 221 WR — 1st place, gold medalist(s) 395 WR 1st place, gold medalist(s)
2024 Bulgaria Sofia, Bulgaria 89 kg 168 173 176 WJR 1st place, gold medalist(s) 208 215 — 1st place, gold medalist(s) 391 1st place, gold medalist(s)
IWF World Cup
2024 Thailand Phuket, Thailand 89 kg 170 176 181 WR 2nd place, silver medalist(s) 215 224 224 1st place, gold medalist(s) 396 WJR 1st place, gold medalist(s)
IWF Grand Prix
2023 Qatar Doha, Qatar 89 kg 165 170 175 6 205 211 223 WR 1st place, gold medalist(s) 393 1st place, gold medalist(s)
World Youth Weightlifting Championships
2019 United States Las Vegas, United States 73 kg 123 127 130 2nd place, silver medalist(s) 154 154 161 1st place, gold medalist(s) 291 1st place, gold medalist(s)
Youth World Cup Online
2020 Peru Lima, Peru 81 kg 150 150 155 1st place, gold medalist(s) 180 190 — 1st place, gold medalist(s) 345 1st place, gold medalist(s)
European Youth Weightlifting Championships
2017 Kosovo Pristina, Kosovo 56 kg 78 82 84 8 106 111 118 4 197 7
2018 Italy San Donato Milanese, Italy 69 kg 105 109 113 1st place, gold medalist(s) 130 140 147 1st place, gold medalist(s) 260 1st place, gold medalist(s)
2019 Israel Eilat, Israel 81 kg 125 133 140 1st place, gold medalist(s) 150 160 170 1st place, gold medalist(s) 300 1st place, gold medalist(s)

Unofficial lifts

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On Video Lifts
Snatch Clean & Jerk Back Squat Front Squat Clean Jerk
Lifted 185 kg 230 kg 290 kg 240 kg x2 230 kg ??
Event 2024 Bundesliga 2024 Bundesliga Personal Instagram Post [24/06/2024] Personal Instagram Post [28/11/2023] Personal Instagram Post [15/06/2024]

References

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  1. ^ "Карлос Насар вицешампион в кат. 89 кг". bnr.bg. Retrieved 4 August 2022.
  2. ^ Manova, Tanya (25 February 2024). "Насар започнал като шахматист" (in Bulgarian). telegraph.bg. Retrieved 7 August 2024.
  3. ^ "IWF Results". IWF.net. Retrieved 12 December 2021.
  4. ^ Oliver, Brian (11 December 2022). "Teenager Nasar gets world record after bomb-out at weightlifting World Championships". InsideTheGames.biz. Retrieved 12 December 2022.
  5. ^ "2021 European Championships Start Book" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2021-04-07. Retrieved 2021-12-12.
  6. ^ "Karlos Nasar breaks the world record, takes gold at the 2023 European Weightlifting Championships".
  7. ^ "Weightlifter Karlos Nasar (89KG) Breaks 5 World Records at 2023 European Championships". 21 April 2023.
  8. ^ "Weightlifter Karlos Nasar (89KG) Sets Multiple New World Records at 2023 European Weightlifting Championships". 20 April 2023.
  9. ^ IWF.net. "IWF Results". Retrieved 1 October 2021.
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