JAKARTA - Rahmat Erwin Abdullah became one of Indonesia's mainstay lifters at the 2023 Asian Games. He is expected to be able to present a gold medal from weightlifting.
Rahmat has also pocketed the perfect capital. On Monday, September 11, the athlete successfully broke the world record for the clean and jerk class at the 2023 IWF World Championships, in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.
Rahmat, who appeared in the 81kg men's class in Group B, broke the world record and at the same time brought home a gold medal from a clean and jerk with an class of 209 kilograms.
The world record of the clean and jerk class was previously held by Bulgarian lifter Karlos Nasar, who was engraved at the 2021 World Championships with a lift weighing 208 kilograms.
This is not the first time Rahmad has broken a record in clean and jerk. In his previous participation in the 2022 IWF World Championships in Bogota, Colombia, Rahmat also managed to make an achievement by breaking the clean and jerk number record with an lift of 200 kilograms in the men's 73kg class.
At that time Rahmat broke the world record of Olympic gold medalist 2020 Shi Zhiyong, with a record of 197 kilograms for clean and jerk at the 2019 World Championships.
"It's amazing. He is the only Indonesian lifter who managed to break the world record of clean and jerk in two different classes, namely 73kg and 81kg. So he deserves the nickname 'The King of Clean andjerk'," said Head of the Indonesian Weightlifting and Achievement Division (PABSI), Hadi Wihardja.
"I am optimistic. He will be able to bring medals at the Asian Games later. Even though he has to compete in the Dragon Cage," he added, as quoted by Antara.
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In addition, Rahmat is also entitled to a silver medal thanks to his total force record of 354 kilograms. Rahmat's total record is only two points adrift of the winner of the Italian gold medal, Oscar Reyes Martinez, with a total force of 356 kilograms.
In the type of snatch, Rahmat only made one lift, namely 145 kilograms. He then did not change the weight of his class on the second and third occasions.
However, in the clean and jerk class that is his specialty, Rahmat started with an lift weighing 195 kilograms. He then added a weight of five kilograms to 200 kilograms in the second batch, and managed to lift it.
On the occasion of performing the third batch, Rahmat officially broke the clean and jerk world record by lifting 209 kilograms.
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