Ferdi Hardal (born 31 December 1996) is a Turkish weightlifter competing in the 67 kg division. He obtained a quota for the 2020 Summer Olympics.
Sport career
Hardal is a member of Gaziantep GSİM Club.
He won two bronze medals in the 56 kg Clean & Jerk event and in Total events of the
2014 European Junior & U23 Championships in
Limassol
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, Cyprus,
two silver medals in the 62 kg Snatch event and in Total of the
2016 European Junior & U23 Championships in
Eilat
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, Israel,
the silver medal in the 62 kg Clean & Jerk event of the
2017 European Junior & U23 Championships in
Durrës
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, Albania,
the gold medal in 62 kg Snatch, the bronze medal in the Clean & Jerk event, the silver medal in Totak of the
2018 European Junior & U23 Championships in
Zamość
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Zamość was founded in 1580 by Jan Zamoyski ...
, Poland,
and the silver medal in the 61 kg Snatch event of the
2019 European Junior & U23 Championships in
Bucharest
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, Romania.
He competed at the
2018 World Championships in
Ashgabat
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, Turkmenistan,
and at the
2019 World Championships in
Pattaya
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, Thailand.
At the
2019 European Championships in
Batumi
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, Georgia, he took the bronze medal in the 61 kg Snatch, the silver medal in Clean & Jerk and the bronze medal in Total.
He won the bronze medal at the
2021 European Championships in
Moscow
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, Russia.
Hardal obtained a quota for the
2020 Summer Olympics
The officially the and officially branded as were an international multi-sport event that was held from 23 July to 8 August 2021 in Tokyo, Japan, with some of the preliminary sporting events beginning on 21 July 2021. Tokyo ...
.
He won the gold medal in the
men's 61 kg Snatch and Clean & Jerk events at the
2022 Mediterranean Games held in Oran, Algeria.
Ferdi Hardal finished third in Europe at the 2025 European Weightlifting Championships in Chisinau, Moldova, in the men's 67 kg category, winning the silver medal with 140 kg in the snatch , the bronze medal with 165 kg in the clean & jerk and the bronze medal with 305 kg in total.
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1996 births
Living people
Sportspeople from Tokat
Turkish male weightlifters
European Weightlifting Championships medalists
Mediterranean Games medalists in weightlifting
Mediterranean Games gold medalists for Turkey
Weightlifters at the 2022 Mediterranean Games
21st-century Turkish sportsmen
Islamic Solidarity Games medalists in weightlifting
Medalists at the 2021 Islamic Solidarity Games
Islamic Solidarity Games bronze medalists for Turkey