Muhammad Nooh Dastgir Butt (born 3 February 1998) is a Pakistani

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from

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. He won the gold medal in the +109 kg event at the

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setting a new Commonwealth Games record.

Personal life

Muhammad Nooh Dastgir Butt was born on February 3, 1998, in

. He belongs to a prominent weightlifting family of

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ancestry. His father Ghulam Dastgir Butt, who also participated in international weightlifting events, coaches Nooh, whose brother Hanzala Dastgir Butt is also a weightlifter who participated in the 2022 Commonwealth Games.

Career

On 3 August 2022, Butt bagged Pakistan's first gold medal at the

when he won the men's +109 kg weightlifting event. He lifted 173 kg in the snatch category, and 232 kg in clean and jerk, both Commonwealth Games records, for a combined lift of 405 kg. Butt had missed out on participation in the 2020 Tokyo Olympics because of a thigh injury that kept him away from the international circuit for over a year. He recovered in time for the

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in Tashkent where he took silver, and also qualified for the 2022 Commonwealth Games. Before his 2022 Commonwealth Games gold, Butt had won the bronze medal in the 105+ kg weightlifting competition in the

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. After lifting 173 kg in snatch, he successfully lifted 222 kg in his first attempt of

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to confirm his medal. In an effort to go for the gold, Nooh tried lifting 228 kg in his 2nd and 231 kg in the third attempt but failed to do so. According to Butt, his failure to lift 231kg in 2018 "following a mistake" he made really stuck with him. He called that failure the most motivating factor that pushed him to aim higher. “My father was really upset with me the last time I won bronze, he didn’t talk to me for a while, so my goal is to do better now,” Butt had said a day prior to his weightlifting event at the 2022 Commonwealth Games where he won gold. Butt also won a bronze medal each at the Commonwealth Games junior championships at

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, Malaysia in

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and at

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, India in

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. He lifted 395 kg in junior championships, which is a junior commonwealth record. He clinched the gold medal in the Hercules Columns competition at the Pahlavon Mahmud Strongman Games 2024 in

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, Uzbekistan. Nooh participated in this event for the first time along with athletes from 18 other countries. Since October 2024, Butt started competing in

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. On December 10, he would set an asian squat record of 400 kilograms in the 120+ kilogram weight class.

Awards and recognition

He was presented a

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Award in 2022 by the

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