Sergio Massidda
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| Citizenship | Italian | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Born | 26 January 2002 Ghilarza, Italy | ||||||||||||||||||||
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| Country | Italy | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Sport | Weightlifting | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Weight class | 61 kg | ||||||||||||||||||||
Medal record
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Sergio Massidda (born 26 January 2002) is an Italian weightlifter. He was a silver medalist at the 2023 World Championships.
Career
[edit]He won the silver medal in the men's 61 kg event at the 2023 European Weightlifting Championships held in Yerevan, Armenia. He represented Italy at the 2019 World Weightlifting Championships, as well as the 2021 European Championships and 2018 World Championships.[1]
Massidda won the gold medal in the men's 55 kg event at the 2019 Youth World Weightlifting Championships held in Las Vegas, United States.[2][3]
At the 2021 European Junior & U23 Weightlifting Championships in Rovaniemi, Finland, he won the gold medal in his event.[4]
Massidda won the gold medal in his event at the 2022 European Junior & U23 Weightlifting Championships held in Durrës, Albania.
In August 2024, Massidda competed in the men's 61 kg event at the 2024 Summer Olympics held in Paris, France. He failed three attempts to lift 134 kg in the Snatch and he did not compete in the Clean & Jerk. A successful attempt in the Snatch would have placed Massidda in the second position after the lift.
Achievements
[edit]| Year | Venue | Weight | Snatch (kg) | Clean & Jerk (kg) | Total | Rank | ||||||
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| 1 | 2 | 3 | Rank | 1 | 2 | 3 | Rank | |||||
| Summer Olympics | ||||||||||||
| 2024 |  Paris, France |
61 kg | — | — | — | — | — | DNF | — | |||
| World Championships | ||||||||||||
| 2018 |  Ashgabat, Turkmenistan |
55 kg | 105 | 8 | 126 | 131 | 8 | 236 | 7 | |||
| 2019 |  Pattaya, Thailand |
55 kg | 105 | 109 | 11 | 130 | 135 | 9 | 244 | 9 | ||
| 2022 |  Bogotá, Colombia |
61 kg | 135 | 4 | 158 | 8 | 293 | 4 | ||||
| 2023 |  Riyadh, Saudi Arabia |
61 kg | 135 | 137 |  |
163 | 165 | 7 | 302 |
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| IWF World Cup | ||||||||||||
| 2020 |  Rome, Italy |
61 kg | 110 | 8 | 135 | 140 | 7 | 250 | 7 | |||
| 2024 | Phuket, Thailand |
67 kg | 140 | 145 |  |
165 | 172 |  |
317 |
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| European Championships | ||||||||||||
| 2019 |  Batumi, Georgia |
55 kg | 100 | 8 | 125 | 7 | 225 | 8 | ||||
| 2021 |  Moscow, Russia |
61 kg | 125 | 6 | 145 | 155 | 6 | 280 | 7 | |||
| 2023 |  Yerevan, Armenia |
61 kg | 130 | |
154 | 162 | |
292 |
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| 2024 |  Sofia, Bulgaria |
67 kg | 135 | 141 | |
162 | 5 | 304 | 4 | |||
References
[edit]- ^ https://www.the-sports.org/sergio-massidda-weightlifting-spf481564.html Sport
- ^ Diamond, James (9 March 2019). "Hat-trick of golds for Massidda at IWF Youth World Championships". InsideTheGames.biz. Retrieved 15 August 2022.
- ^ "2019 Youth World Weightlifting Championships" (PDF). IWF. Archived from the original (PDF) on 29 May 2020. Retrieved 29 May 2020.
- ^ "2021 European Junior & U23 Weightlifting Championships Results Book" (PDF). European Weightlifting Federation. Archived (PDF) from the original on 4 October 2021. Retrieved 4 October 2021.
External links
[edit]- Sergio Massidda at the International Weightlifting Federation
- Sergio Massidda at the International Weightlifting Results Project
- Sergio Massidda at Olympics.com
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