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Mart Seim
Personal information
NationalityEstonian
Born (1990-10-24) 24 October 1990 (age 33)
Rakvere, Estonia
Alma materTallinn University
Height1.85 m (6 ft 1 in)
Weight149 kg (328 lb)
Sport
Country Estonia
SportWeightlifting
Event+109 kg
ClubSK Sparta
Achievements and titles
Personal bests
  • Snatch: 192 kg (2018)
  • Clean & jerk: 253 kg (2017)
  • Total: 444 kg (2017)
Medal record
World Championships
Silver medal – second place 2015 Houston +105 kg
European Championships
Bronze medal – third place 2016 Førde +105 kg

Mart Seim (born 24 October 1990) is an Estonian weightlifter competing in the +105 kg category.

Career

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Seim competed for Estonia at the 2014 World Weightlifting Championships finishing 4th with a total of 431 kg.[1]

At the 2015 World Weightlifting Championships he finished third at the men's +105 kg.[2] After Aleksey Lovchev failed doping tests, Seim was promoted to second place (Silver), and Georgian Lasha Talakhadze to Gold.[3]

In August 2024, he finished in ninth place in the men's +102 kg event at the 2024 Summer Olympics held in Paris, France.[4]

Seim's father and grandfather were also weightlifters.

Major results

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Year Venue Weight Snatch (kg) Clean & Jerk (kg) Total Rank
1 2 3 Rank 1 2 3 Rank
Olympic Games
2016 Rio de Janeiro, Brazil +105 kg 187 187 191 — 243 250 255 — 430 7
2024 Paris, France +102 kg 175 180 183 — 220 237 237 — 400 9
World Championships
2014 Almaty, Kazakhstan +105 kg 180 185 188 11 234 243 246 4 431 4
2015 Houston, United States +105 kg 185 185 190 12 241 248 248 1st place, gold medalist(s) 438 2nd place, silver medalist(s)
2017 Anaheim, United States +105 kg 185 191 195 7 245 251 253 2nd place, silver medalist(s) 444 5
2018 Ashgabat, Turkmenistan +109 kg 185 192 195 9 235 251 251 5 427 5
2019 Pattaya, Thailand +109 kg 175 175 175 20 225 230 230 16 400 17
2021 Tashkent, Uzbekistan +109 kg 175 180 180 15 225 233 236 11 400 12
2022 Bogota, Colombia +109 kg 170 175 177 16 220 220 220 16 397 15
2023 Riyadh, Saudi Arabia +109 kg 175 180 185 13 225 225 232 9 405 10
IWF World Cup
2024 Phuket, Thailand +109 kg 180 180 185 12 — — — — — —
European Championships
2012 Antalya, Turkey +105 kg 147 152 152 17 200 206 209 10 358 12
2013 Tirana, Albania +105 kg 165 170 170 11 220 220 221 5 386 8
2014 Tel Aviv, Israel +105 kg 175 182 185 9 226 226 236 3rd place, bronze medalist(s) 418 6
2016 Førde, Norway +105 kg 185 185 191 6 235 239 250 2nd place, silver medalist(s) 424 3rd place, bronze medalist(s)
2017 Split, Croatia +105 kg 180 185 185 9 235 242 246 2nd place, silver medalist(s) 426 5
2023 Yerevan, Armenia +109 kg 170 170 175 5 220 220 – 5 395 4
2024 Sofia, Bulgaria +109 kg 180 185 188 4 225 237 — 4 410 4
Summer Universiade
2011 Shenzhen, China +105 kg 144 150 153 12 190 197 200 13 340 13

References

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  1. ^ "SEIM MART". International Weightlifting Federation.
  2. ^ "SEIM MART". International Weightlifting Federation.
  3. ^ Beltadze, Georgi (24 December 2015). "Kuna võitja põrus dopingukontrollis, kerkis Mart Seim MM-hõbedale" [Because the winner failed in doping tests, Mart Seim acceded to World Championships Silver] (in Estonian). Postimees. Retrieved 25 December 2015.
  4. ^ "Weightlifting Results Book" (PDF). 2024 Summer Olympics. Archived from the original (PDF) on 11 August 2024. Retrieved 12 August 2024.
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Awards
Preceded by Estonian Athlete of the Year
2015 		Succeeded by
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