Nooh Dastgir Butt

Nooh Dastgir Butt

Personal information
Native name	محمّد نوح دستگیر بٹ
Full name	Muhammad Nooh Dastgir Butt
Nationality	Pakistani
Born	(1998-02-03) 3 February 1998 Gujranwala, Punjab, Pakistan
Sport
Country	Pakistan
Sport	Weightlifting
Event	+109 kg
Club	South Asian Gym
Turned pro	2014
Coached by	Ghulam Dastgir
Medal record Men's weightlifting Representing Pakistan Event 1st 2nd 3rd Commonwealth Games 1 – 1 Commonwealth Championships – 2 2 South Asian Games 2 – - Total 3 2 3 Commonwealth Games Gold medal – first place 2022 Birmingham +109 kg Bronze medal – third place 2018 Gold Coast +105 kg Commonwealth Championships Silver medal – second place 2021 Tashkent +109 kg Silver medal – second place 2017 Gold Coast +105 kg Bronze medal – third place 2016 Penang +105 kg Bronze medal – third place 2015 Pune +105 kg South Asian Games Gold medal – first place 2016 Guwahati and Shillong +105 kg Gold medal – first place 2019 Kathmandu +109 kg
Updated on 4 August 2022

Muhammad Nooh Dastgir Butt (born 3 February 1998) is a Pakistani weightlifter and powerlifter from Gujranwala, Pakistan. He won the gold medal in the +109 kg event at the 2022 Commonwealth Games setting a new Commonwealth Games record.

Personal life

Muhammad Nooh Dastgir Butt was born on February 3, 1998, in Gujranwala. He belongs to a prominent weightlifting family of Kashmiri ancestry. His father Ghulam Dastgir Butt, who also participated in international weightlifting events, coaches Nooh, whose brother Hanzala Dastgir Butt is also a weightlifter who participated in the 2022 Commonwealth Games.

Career

On 3 August 2022, Butt bagged Pakistan's first gold medal at the 2022 Commonwealth Games when he won the men's +109 kg weightlifting event. He lifted 173 kg in the snatch category, and 232 kg in clean and jerk, both Commonwealth Games records, for a combined lift of 405 kg.

Butt had missed out on participation in the 2020 Tokyo Olympics because of a thigh injury that kept him away from the international circuit for over a year. He recovered in time for the 2021 Commonwealth Weightlifting Championships in Tashkent where he took silver, and also qualified for the 2022 Commonwealth Games.

Before his 2022 Commonwealth Games gold, Butt had won the bronze medal in the 105+ kg weightlifting competition in the 2018 Commonwealth Games. After lifting 173 kg in snatch, he successfully lifted 222 kg in his first attempt of clean and jerk to confirm his medal. In an effort to go for the gold, Nooh tried lifting 228 kg in his 2nd and 231 kg in the third attempt but failed to do so.

According to Butt, his failure to lift 231kg in 2018 "following a mistake" he made really stuck with him. He called that failure the most motivating factor that pushed him to aim higher.

“My father was really upset with me the last time I won bronze, he didn’t talk to me for a while, so my goal is to do better now,” Butt had said a day prior to his weightlifting event at the 2022 Commonwealth Games where he won gold.

Butt also won a bronze medal each at the Commonwealth Games junior championships at Penang, Malaysia in 2016 and at Pune, India in 2015. He lifted 395 kg in junior championships, which is a junior commonwealth record. He clinched the gold medal in the Hercules Columns competition at the Pahlavon Mahmud Strongman Games 2024 in Khiva, Uzbekistan. Nooh participated in this event for the first time along with athletes from 18 other countries.

Since October 2024, Butt started competing in powerlifting. On December 10, he would set an asian squat record of 400 kilograms in the 120+ kilogram weight class.

Awards and recognition

Ribbon	Decoration	Country	Year
File:President's Award for Pride of Performance.png	Pride of Performance	Pakistan	2022

He was presented a Pride of Performance Award in 2022 by the president of Pakistan.

External links

• Nooh Dastgir Butt at the International Weightlifting Federation
• Nooh Dastgir Butt on Facebook