Kazakhstan’s Nijat Rahimov breaks world record, wins weightlifting gold medal
Q. Who broke the world record to win the gold medal in the men’s 77kg weightlifting class at Rio Olympic Games?- Published on 12 Aug 16a. Nijat Abimov
b. Nijat Rahimov
c. Nijat Ahmed
d. Nijat Ali
ANSWER: Nijat Rahimov
Nijat Rahimov, from Kazakhstan has broken the world record to win the gold medal of the men’s 77 kg weightlifting class on 10th August 2016
- Lu Xiaojun of China took the silver and Mohamed Ihab of Egypt claimed the bronze.
- Rahimov won by lifting 214 kg and formerly represented Azerbaijan
- He won gold for Azerbaijan at the 2010 Summer Olympics and gold at the 2010 European Junior Weightlifting Championship
- He was served a doping ban between 2013 and 2015
- He won gold for Kazakhstan setting a world record in clean and jerk
- Another gold medal winner from Kazakhstan was Dmitriy Balandin who on 10 August 2016 won gold medal in the men's 200-meter breaststroke final. It is Balandin’s first Olympic medal.
- He won the second gold medal for the country in the 2016 Olympics and the first ever medal for the nation in a swimming event
- Currently, he holds two Kazakh records in the 100 and 200 m breaststroke.
- He set a historic milestone for his nation by striking the breaststroke triple at the 2014 Asian Games in Incheon, South Korea.
