World Weightlifting Championships Qatar’s Fares claims two silver medals

Qatar’s Fares Ibrahim secured two silver medals at the Manama 2024 World Weightlifting Championships for Men and Women, in Bahrain.The competition, featuring some of the world’s most prominent weightlifters, will conclude on Sunday.A gold medallist at the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games, Fares showcased an impressive performance in the fiercely contested 102kg weight class, which included 24 elite lifters, many of them world and Olympic champions.In the clean and jerk, Fares claimed the silver medal by lifting 225kg.The gold medal went to Uzbekistan’s Artyom Antropov who lifted 230kg, while Colombia’s Jhonatan Rivas took bronze with a lift of 213kg.Fares also earned a silver medal in the total category, achieving a combined lift of 399kg – 225kg in the snatch and 174kg in the clean and jerk.He narrowly missed the gold, which was won by Antropov with a total of 400kg (230kg in the clean and jerk and 170kg in the snatch).The bronze medal in the total went to Spain’s Marcos Ruiz, who lifted a combined 395kg – 212kg in the clean and jerk and 183kg in the snatch.In the snatch category of the 102kg event, the gold medal was awarded to Ruiz.