Darius Jokarzadeh
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| Full name | Darius Asadullah Jokarzadeh | ||||||||||||||
| Born | 25 June 1993 Cardiff, Wales | ||||||||||||||
| Weight | 127.17 kg (280.4 lb) | ||||||||||||||
| Sport | |||||||||||||||
| Country |  Great Britain Wales | ||||||||||||||
| Sport | Weightlifting | ||||||||||||||
| Weight class | +105 kg | ||||||||||||||
| Team | National team | ||||||||||||||
Medal record
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| Updated on 13 December 2017 | |||||||||||||||
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Darius Jokarzadeh (born 25 June 1993) is a Welsh male weightlifter, competing in the +105 kg category.
Jokarzadeh was born in Cardiff to an Iranian father. He attended Ysgol Gyfun Gymraeg Glantaf, a secondary school that teaches through the medium of Welsh. He was a sport rower before taking up weightlifting.[1]
As a junior he set an overall British records in Olympic weightlifting in the clean & jerk, lifting 215 kg at the World Junior Championships in Lima, Peru on 10 May 2013. He represented Wales at the 2014 Commonwealth Games in the +105 kg event.[2]
Major competitions
| Year | Venue | Weight | Snatch (kg) | Clean & Jerk (kg) | Total | Rank | ||||||
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| 1 | 2 | 3 | Rank | 1 | 2 | 3 | Rank | |||||
| Representing Great Britain | ||||||||||||
| European Championships | ||||||||||||
| 2016 |  Førde, Norway | +105 kg | 162 | 14 | 190 | 195 | 18 | 357 | 15 | |||
| 2013 |  Tirana, Albania | +105 kg | 165 | 173 | 9 | 190 | 197 | 202 | 9 | 375 | 9 | |
| 2012 |  Antalya, Turkey | +105 kg | 155 | 16 | 180 | 185 | 15 | 340 | 15 | |||
| Representing Wales | ||||||||||||
| Commonwealth Games | ||||||||||||
| 2014 |  Glasgow, Scotland | +105 kg | 165 | 4 | 196 | 4 | 361 | 4 | ||||
| Commonwealth Championships | ||||||||||||
| 2011 |  Cape Town, South Africa | +105 kg | 125 |  | 155 | 161 | | 286 | | |||
References
- ^ "Weighlifting: Darius Jokarzadeh confident he can realise Olympic dream". Wales Online. 2 May 2012.
- ^ "Weightlifting at the 2014 Commonwealth Games - Darius Jokarzadeh". iwf.net. Retrieved 23 June 2016.