Almir Velagic

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Almir Velagic Weightlifting
Weightlifting at the 2016 Summer Olympics - Men's +105 kg -7.jpg

Personal information
Surname: Almir Velagic
Nationality: GermanyGermany Germany
Society: AV 03 Speyer
Date of birth: 22nd August 1981
Place of birth: Livno , SFRY
Medal table
Medals

Almir Velagic (born August 22, 1981 in Livno , SFR Yugoslavia , today Bosnia and Herzegovina ) is a German weightlifter .

Career

Almir Velagic, a native Bosnian , started lifting weights at AC Kaufbeuren in 1992 . For the club he also started in individual competitions until mid-2009, but then switched to AV 03 Speyer . The super heavyweight has also competed for the SV Germania Obrigheim team since 2006 , before he started for the AC Forst . Until 2004 Velagic competed in the heavyweight up to 105 kg, but then switched to the super heavyweight over 105 kg due to stagnating performance. The sports soldier belongs to the sports promotion company of the Bundeswehr in Bruchsal .

At the 2005 World Cup, Velagic reached eleventh place, eighth place in 2006 and twelfth in 2007. He finished sixth at the 2007 European Championships. In 2005, 2006 and 2007 Velagic was also German champion in the super heavyweight over 105 kg. With a strong performance at the Adriatic Alpine Cup in 2008, he qualified for the 2008 Olympic Games in Beijing , where he finished eighth with 413 kg (188 kg tearing and 225 kg pushing ) and at the same time set a personal best.

At the European Championships in Bucharest in 2009 , Velagic won the bronze medal in snatching behind Shymechko and Pisarev with a new personal best of 190 kg, as well as bronze in pushing with 228 kg and silver in a duel with 418 kg behind Shymechko with 433 kg. At the Olympic Games in London in 2012 he reached eighth place in the weight class over 105 kg .

At the European Championships in 2014 , Velagic won bronze in a duel. At the European Championships in 2015 he was first fourth in the duel and in the snatch. After the doping transfer of Oleg Proshak Velagic received two bronze medals.

statistics

Top performances
  • Snatch: 195 kg at the 2015 World Championships in Houston, Texas
  • Push: 242 kg at the Olympic Test Tournament in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
  • Combat: 433 kg (195 kg / 238 kg) at the 2015 World Championships in Houston, Texas
successes
  • J-EM participant in 2000 and 2001
  • German champion 2005, 2006, 2007
  • EU Championships 2002 (1st place tear - 1st place push - 1st place duel)
  • European Championship participant 2003, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2013, 2014, 2015
  • World Cup participants 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2014, 2015
  • Olympic Games 2008 (8th place duel)
  • European Championships 2009 (3rd place tear - 3rd place push - 2nd place duel)
  • European Championships 2010 (3rd place tear - 4th place push - 4th place duel)
  • Olympic Games 2012 (8th place duel)
  • European Championships 2014 (3rd place duel - 4th place tear - 4th place push)
  • European Championships 2015 (3rd place duel - 3rd place tear - 5th place push)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Almir Velagic with a personal best in Beijing. (No longer available online.) In: Netzathleten.de. August 19, 2008, formerly in the original ; Retrieved April 13, 2014 .  ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / www.netzathleten.de  
  2. ↑ Almir Velagic now the official two-time bronze medalist of the European Championships bvdg-online.com August 13, 2015
  3. ↑ [1] Statistics on the IMF website.
  4. ↑ Almir Velagic in a portrait on the website of the Federal Association of German Weightlifters
personal data
SURNAME Velagic, Almir
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German weightlifter
DATE OF BIRTH 22nd August 1981
PLACE OF BIRTH Livno , Bosnia and Herzegovina , Yugoslavia