Bahrain Eyes Record Olympics; Best-ever Performance by Team Bahrain; Rio Record Shattered

Bahrain is poised to achieve it’s best-ever standing in the history of Olympics at the 2024 Paris Olympics, with its three medals slated to increase to four on Sunday, and the Kingdom hoping for a gold on Sunday, followed by more medals from the other remaining athletes.

With Sunday’s winning of a bronze medal by Gor Minasyan, the first-ever in weightlifting for Bahrain, the Kingdom now has won one medal each in gold, silver, and bronze categories in the ongoing Olympics.

This brings Bahrain’s winnings to double that of what was achieved in the 2016 Rio de Janeiro Olympics, in which the Kingdom had scored one gold and one silver medals.

It was after competing in seven Olympics games that the Kingdom achieved its first gold medal in the 2012 London Olympics. In the 2020 Tokyo Olympics, Bahrain had won one silver medal.

On Sunday, Bahrain has high hopes for Akhmed Tazhudinov, who will be competing in the finals of the men’s freestyle 97kg wrestling after a relentless performance on Saturday earned him a victory. In the finals scheduled for today at 12pm, Tazhudinov will face Givi Matcharashvili from Georgia, as hopes remain high for a gold medal for Bahrain.

It is at this pivotal moment in Bahrain’s sports history that Gor Minasyan made history on Saturday by securing the Kingdom its first-ever Olympic weightlifting medal by competing in the men’s +102kg category.

Minasyan’s Exceptional Performance

Minasyan delivered a stellar performance in both the snatch and clean & jerk events. He lifted 210kg, 216kg, and 220kg in the snatch with his impressive strength and technique. His clean & jerk lifts of 245kg, 255kg, and 255kg earned him a total weight of 461kg.

Top Performers of the Event

The gold medal was claimed by Lasha Talakhadze of Georgia, who lifted a total of 470kg, with snatches of 210kg, 215kg, and 220kg, and clean & jerks of 247kg and 255kg. Armenia’s Varazdat Lalayan took the silver with a total of 467kg, lifting 210kg in the snatch and 252kg in the clean & jerk.

As Tazhudinov fights in the finals on Sunday, all in Bahrain will be eagerly watching and praying for him winning a gold, which would propel the Kingdom to a time of glory in Olympic sports.