Akbar Djuraev

Akbar Djuraev was born on 8 October 1999 in Tashkent. An Uzbekistani weightlifter, he competes mainly at 109 and 110 kg. His personal bests are a 196 kg snatch (2025), a 242 kg clean and jerk (2023) and a 437 kg total (2023).

At the World Junior Championships he won silver in 2018 and gold in 2019, and holds junior world records. At senior World Championships he placed 13th (2017) and 4th (2018), took silver in 2019 and won gold in Tashkent (2021), Riyadh (2023) and Førde (2025).

He won the 109 kg title at the Tokyo 2020 Olympics with a 430 kg Olympic-record total, and silver at 102 kg in Paris 2024 (404 kg). At the Asian Games he took silver at the 2022 edition (held in 2023) and gold in 2026 in Aichi–Nagoya. He won the Asian Championships in 2024 and 2025, took silver in 2019 and 2020 and bronze in 2023, and won gold at the Islamic Solidarity Games in 2021 and 2025.