Welcome to the OFFICIAL page of the Olympic weightlifter Oleksiy Torokhtiy!
I am Ukrainian weightlifter, Olympic champion in weightlifting (London, 2012), winner of European and world championships, participant of the Olympic Games (Beijing (2008) and London (2012), Merited Master of Sport, VicePresident of Weightlifting Federation of Ukraine. Postgraduate student of the Kharkiv Aviation Institute. Deputy head of the NOC athletes’ commission.
Olympic weightlifting, also called Olympicstyle weightlifting, or weightlifting, is an athletic discipline in the modern Olympic programme in which participants attempt a maximumweight single lift of a barbell loaded with weight plates.
