Ritvars Suharevs

Ritvars Suharevs

Personal information
Nationality	Latvia
Born	(1999-01-11) 11 January 1999 Dobele, Latvia
Height	1.62 m (5 ft 4 in)
Weight	80.90 kg (178.4 lb)
Sport
Country	Latvia
Sport	Weightlifting
Event	–81 kg
Coached by	Eduards Andruškevičs
Achievements and titles
Personal bests	Snatch: 162 kg (2019) Clean & jerk: 192 kg (2019) Total: 354 kg (2019)
Medal record Representing Latvia European Championships Gold medal – first place 2023 Yerevan –73 kg Bronze medal – third place 2024 Sofia –73 kg Bronze medal – third place 2021 Moscow –81 kg Bronze medal – third place 2019 Batumi –81 kg European Junior Championships Silver medal – second place 2016 Eilat –77 kg Silver medal – second place 2015 Klaipėda –77 kg World Youth Championships Silver medal – second place 2015 Lima –69 kg European Youth Championships Gold medal – first place 2016 Nowy Tomyśl –77 kg Gold medal – first place 2015 Landskrona –69 kg Gold medal – first place 2014 Ciechanów –62 kg Gold medal – first place 2013 Klaipėda –56 kg Junior World Championships Gold medal – first place 2018 Tashkent –77 kg

Ritvars Suharevs (born 11 January 1999) is a Latvian weightlifter, and Junior World Champion competing in the 77 kg category until 2018 and 81 kg starting in 2018 after the International Weightlifting Federation reorganized the categories.

Career

Suharevs' first major result came at the 2013 European Youth Championships held in Klaipėda, Lithuania where he won three golds; coming first in the overall classification along with the individual snatch and clean & jerk. The following year, in 2014, Suharevs won gold again at the European Youth Championships hosted in Ciechanów, this time in the −62 kg with a total lift of 256 kg. At the 2016 European Junior Championships, Ritvars came second in the −77kg class, finishing only a kilogram behind gold medalist Davit Hovhannisyan.

In August 2024, Suharevs competed in the men's 73 kg event at the 2024 Summer Olympics held in Paris, France. He failed two attempts to lift 147 kg in the Snatch and finished the competition with no result. During the Olympics he suffered a shoulder injury.

Major results

Year	Venue	Weight	Snatch (kg)				Clean & Jerk (kg)				Total	Rank
			1	2	3	Rank	1	2	3	Rank
Summer Olympics
2021	Tokyo, Japan	81 kg	158	158	163	—	190	195	198	—	358	6
2024	Paris, France	73 kg	147	147	—	—	—	—	—	—	DNF	—
World Championships
2018	Ashgabat, Turkmenistan	81 kg	153	156	159	6	184	185	191	15	344	11
2019	Pattaya, Thailand	81 kg	154	158	160	16	188	192	200	11	346	12
2022	Bogotá, Colombia	73 kg	143	143	146	16	172	172	176	15	319	14
2023	Riyadh, Saudi Arabia	73 kg	150	154	156	3rd place, bronze medalist(s)	178	178	181	—	—	—
IWF World Cup
2024	Phuket, Thailand	73 kg	151	154	157	5	178	184	187	9	341	6
European Championships
2016	Førde, Norway	77 kg	143	147	150	8	167	171	177	16	321	12
2017	Split, Croatia	77 kg	145	150	154	8	175	180	185	8	335	8
2018	Bucharest, Romania	77 kg	150	150	156	3rd place, bronze medalist(s)	176	181	186	5	337	4
2019	Batumi, Georgia	81 kg	155	160	162	1st place, gold medalist(s)	183	187	192	5	354	3rd place, bronze medalist(s)
Junior World Weightlifting Championships
2017	Tokyo, Japan	77 kg	147	151	154	3rd place, bronze medalist(s)	175	180	184	6	334	4
2018	Tashkent, Uzbekistan	77 kg	148	152	156	1st place, gold medalist(s)	175	180	185	1st place, gold medalist(s)	336	1st place, gold medalist(s)

External links

• Ritvars Suharevs at the Latvijas Olimpiskā komiteja (in Latvian) (English translation)
• Ritvars Suharevs at the Latvijas Olimpiskā vienība at the Wayback Machine (archived 18 September 2016) (in Latvian)