Fares El-Bakh

Qatari weightlifter (born 1998)

  • Snatch: 178 kg (2019)
  • Clean and jerk: 228 kg (2019)
  • Total: 404 kg (2019)
Medal record
Men's weightlifting
Representing  Qatar
Olympic Games
Gold medal – first place 2020 Tokyo –96 kg
World Championships
Gold medal – first place 2022 Bogotá –102 kg
Silver medal – second place 2019 Pattaya –96 kg
Silver medal – second place 2021 Tashkent –96 kg
Bronze medal – third place 2017 Anaheim –94 kg
Asian Games
Silver medal – second place 2018 Jakarta –94 kg
Asian Championships
Gold medal – first place 2022 Manama 102 kg
Silver medal – second place 2020 Tashkent 102 kg
Junior World Championships
Gold medal – first place 2017 Tokyo –85 kg
Gold medal – first place 2018 Tashkent –94 kg
Bronze medal – third place 2016 Tbilisi –85 kg

Fares Ibrahim Saed Hassouna El-Bakh (Arabic: فارس ابراهيم سعد حسونة الباخ, born 4 June 1998), commonly known as Meso Hassouna, is a Qatari weightlifter of egyptian origin. He is an Olympic Champion, World Champion and two time Junior World Champion competing in the 85 kg, and 94 kg categories until 2018 and 96 kg and 102 kg starting in 2018 after the International Weightlifting Federation reorganized the categories.[3]

He holds the junior world record in the clean & jerk (225 kg) and total (397 kg) in the 96 kg division. His father, Ibrahim Hassouna, represented Egypt at three consecutive Olympics from 1984 to 1992.

Career

Olympics

He initially placed eighth at the men's 85 kg event at the 2016 Summer Olympics,[4][5] but was updated to seventh[2][6] after the original bronze medalist Gabriel Sîncrăian failed a drug test in October of that year.[7] At the 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo, he competed in the 96 kg category. After the snatch portion of the competition, he was in fourth place with a 177 kg lift, although the difference between first and fifth place was just 2 kg. In the clean & jerk section, he attempted his first lift after every competitor had finished their lifts. He successfully lifted 217 kg, clinching the gold medal, he followed himself with an Olympic record lift of 225 kg, which gave him a total of 402 kg (also an Olympic record).[8] He attempted, but failed a world record lift of 232 kg, his total of 402 kg was 15 kg greater than the silver and bronze medalists. With his Olympic gold, he became the first Qatari Olympic Champion, regardless of sport.[9]

World Championships

In 2017 he moved up to the 94 kg category and competed at the 2017 World Weightlifting Championships, where he won a silver medal in the clean & jerk and originally placed fourth overall,[10] but was upgraded to a bronze medal in the total after the original silver medalist Aurimas Didžbalis was disqualified after failing a drug test.[11]

The next year he competed in the 2018 World Weightlifting Championships, where he a bronze medal in the clean & jerk portion in the new 96 kg category.[12] During the competition he set a new junior world record in the clean and jerk.[13]

Other competitions

He competed at the 2016 Junior World Weightlifting Championships and won a bronze medal in the total in the clean & jerk and total in the 85 kg category. The following year he competed again at the Junior World Weightlifting Championships this time he got a gold medal in the 85 kg category.[14]

In 2018 he defended his title as Junior World Champion, he won a gold medal at the Junior World Weightlifting Championships in the 94 kg category. He also won the Asian Junior Championships in the 94 kg division,[15] later in 2018 he competed at the 2018 Asian Games and won the silver medal in the 94 kg category.[16] At the 5th International Qatar Cup[17][18] he swept gold in the 96 kg class,[19] where he set a junior world records in the clean & jerk with 225 kg and total with 397 kg.[20][21]

Major results

Year Venue Weight Snatch (kg) Clean & Jerk (kg) Total Rank
1 2 3 Rank 1 2 3 Rank
Olympic Games
2016 Brazil Rio de Janeiro, Brazil 85 kg 151 155 158 10 197 203 208 6 361 7
2021 Japan Tokyo, Japan 96 kg 173 177 177 4 217 225 OR 232 1 402 OR 1st place, gold medalist(s)
World Championships
2017 United States Anaheim, United States 94 kg 163 167 167 10 210 215 220 2nd place, silver medalist(s) 383 3rd place, bronze medalist(s)
2018 Turkmenistan Ashgabat, Turkmenistan 96 kg 171 174 174 9 217 217 222 3rd place, bronze medalist(s) 388 5
2019 Thailand Pattaya, Thailand 96 kg 174 178 181 4 217 224 230 2nd place, silver medalist(s) 402 2nd place, silver medalist(s)
2021 Uzbekistan Tashkent, Uzbekistan 96 kg 172 175 175 6 217 222 229 1st place, gold medalist(s) 394 2nd place, silver medalist(s)
2022 Colombia Bogotá, Colombia 102 kg 170 174 177 5 217 -- -- 2nd place, silver medalist(s) 391 1st place, gold medalist(s)
2023 Saudi Arabia Riyadh, Saudi Arabia 102 kg 170 174 176 15 218 223 223 2nd place, silver medalist(s) 388 7
Asian Games
2018 Indonesia Jakarta, Indonesia 94 kg 166 170 170 3 215 222 222 2 381 2nd place, silver medalist(s)
Asian Championships
2016 Uzbekistan Tashkent, Uzbekistan 85 kg 145 150 155 8 191 196 200 3rd place, bronze medalist(s) 346 6
2019 China Ningbo, China 96 kg 170 174 174 2nd place, silver medalist(s) 221 221 222 — — —
2020 Uzbekistan Tashkent, Uzbekistan 102 kg 174 174 174 2nd place, silver medalist(s) 222 229 232 2nd place, silver medalist(s) 396 2nd place, silver medalist(s)
2022 Bahrain Manama, Bahrain 102 kg 171 175 176 2nd place, silver medalist(s) 215 -- -- 1st place, gold medalist(s) 386 1st place, gold medalist(s)
World Junior Championships
2016 Georgia (country) Tbilisi, Georgia 85 kg 150 155 155 8 196 196 201 3rd place, bronze medalist(s) 346 3rd place, bronze medalist(s)
2017 Japan Tokyo, Japan 85 kg 156 160 163 2nd place, silver medalist(s) 193 193 200 1st place, gold medalist(s) 353 1st place, gold medalist(s)
2018 Uzbekistan Tashkent, Uzbekistan 94 kg 163 167 170 2nd place, silver medalist(s) 205 215 — 1st place, gold medalist(s) 385 1st place, gold medalist(s)
IWF Grand Prix
2023 Qatar Doha, Qatar 102 kg 172 176 179 3rd place, bronze medalist(s) 221 224 232 1st place, gold medalist(s) 400 1st place, gold medalist(s)
Qatar Cup
2018 Qatar Doha, Qatar 96 kg 168 171 172 1st place, gold medalist(s) 213 219 225 1st place, gold medalist(s) 397 1st place, gold medalist(s)
2019 Qatar Doha, Qatar 96 kg 173 173 176 2nd place, silver medalist(s) 213 223 228 1st place, gold medalist(s) 404 1st place, gold medalist(s)

References

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