Ritvars Suharevs (born 11 January 1999) is a Latvian

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, and Junior World Champion competing in the 77 kg category until 2018 and 81 kg starting in 2018 after the

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reorganized the categories.

Career

Suharevs' first major result came at the 2013 European Youth Championships held in

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where he won three golds; coming first in the overall classification along with the individual snatch and clean & jerk. The following year, in 2014, Suharevs won gold again at the European Youth Championships hosted in

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, this time in the −62 kg with a total lift of 256 kg. At the 2016 European Junior Championships, Ritvars came second in the −77kg class, finishing only a kilogram behind gold medalist Davit Hovhannisyan. In August 2024, Suharevs competed in the men's 73 kg event at the

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held in Paris, France. He failed two attempts to lift 147 kg in the Snatch and finished the competition with no result. During the Olympics he suffered a should injury.

Major results

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