Turkmen athlete Shahzadbek Matyakubov set a new world record in the clean and jerk in the weight category up to 102 kg at the junior World Weightlifting Championships in Spain. This is reported by the press service of the International Weightlifting Federation (IWF).

The 20-year-old weightlifter lifted a barbell weighing 216 kg, surpassing the previous record by 1 kg, which was also set at the World Championships by a representative of Brazil.

In the total of the two-man event (175 +216), Matyakubov gained 391 kg, which earned him the gold medal of the junior championship of the planet.

Brazilian athlete Mateus Pisanya took second place with a score of 383 kg (168+215), and Egyptian Mahmoud Hosni took third place with a score of 369 kg (169+200).

Earlier at this championship, Turkmen athlete Anamjan Rustamova won a bronze medal in the snatch in the weight category up to 81 kg.