Darius Jokarzadeh (born ) is a Welsh male
weightlifter
Weightlifting or weight lifting generally refers to physical exercises and sports in which people lift weights, often in the form of dumbbells, barbells or machines. People engage in weightlifting for a variety of different reasons. These can ...
, competing in the +105 kg category.
Jokarzadeh was born in
Cardiff
Cardiff (; ) is the capital city, capital and List of urban areas in the United Kingdom, largest city of Wales. Cardiff had a population of in and forms a Principal areas of Wales, principal area officially known as the City and County of Ca ...
to an Iranian father. He attended
Ysgol Gyfun Gymraeg Glantaf
Ysgol Gyfun Gymraeg Glantaf is a Welsh medium education, Welsh-medium coeducational secondary school in Llandaff North, a district in the north of Cardiff, Wales; it is the largest of its kind in the country. Of the three Welsh-medium secondary ...
, a secondary school that teaches through the medium of Welsh. He was a
sport rower before taking up weightlifting.
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
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, Peru on 10 May 2013. He represented Wales at the
2014 Commonwealth Games
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in the
+105 kg event.
Major competitions
References
1993 births
Living people
Welsh male weightlifters
Place of birth missing (living people)
Weightlifters at the 2014 Commonwealth Games
Commonwealth Games competitors for Wales
21st-century Welsh sportsmen
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