During the Men’s +102KG weightlifting event at the 2024 Paris Olympics on Aug. 10, Lasha Talakhadze of Georgia claimed the gold medal. With this achievement, Talakhadze cemented himself as perhaps the greatest weightlifter to ever step on the platform.
Talakhadze scored his third straight Olympic gold in Paris — his first came in Rio de Janeiro in 2016, his second five years later in Tokyo. Talakhadze astounded the imaginations of the spectators in the South Paris Arena, scoring the following lifts:
2024 Olympics Results | Lasha Talakhadze, +102KG
- Snatch: 210, 215, 220x
- Clean & Jerk: 247, 255
- Total: 470
Talakhadze’s snatch miss at 220 was his first-ever unsuccessful lift at an Olympic Games event. He declined his final clean & jerk attempt.
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Talakhadze holds every world record in the men’s super-heavyweight category and has not lost a weightlifting contest in over a decade. The Georgian giant’s Paris medal caps off a truly illustrious (and impeccable) career in weightlifting
- Olympic Games wins: 3 (2016 – 2024)
- World Championships wins: 7 (2015 – 2023)*
- European Championships wins: 7 (2016 – 2023)*
Whether Talakhadze will retire with an unblemished record is unclear. On Jul. 30, 2024, Georgian Weightlifting Federation President and former weightlifter Kahki Kakhiashvili urged Talakhadze to continue to the next Games in Los Angeles in 2028:
- “Should we all be blessed with Lasha’s fourth Olympic gold medal, he would definitely get the title of all-time best,” Kakhiashvili said. “It is my dream for him.”
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