Four years after just missing out on the medal stand in the men’s heavyweight weightlifting competition, Uzbekistan’s Ruslan Nurudinov claimed gold in impressive fashion.
Nurudinov took gold with with a combined weight lifted of 431 kilograms, which works out to just over 950 pounds, in the snatch and clean and jerk lifts. While Nurudinov didn’t establish a new Olympic record in regards to the total amount of weight lifted, he did break the Olympic record in the clean and jerk. On his last lift of the competition Nurudinov executed a proper clean and jerk of 237 kg, one over the record set by Belarus’ Andrei Aramnau in Beijing eight years ago.