Nooh Dastgir Butt, the 2022 Commonwealth Games gold medalist, has set two new records at the National Powerlifting Championships.
Nooh Dastgir Butt sets new powerlifting records
In the National Powerlifting Championship held in Lahore, Nooh broke his own national records by lifting 330 kg in squat and 208 kg in bench press.
Nooh suggests that it is not difficult for the local athletes to secure a medal in the esteemed Olympics championships if these athletes are provided with adequate training facilities.
Nooh also emphasized that the government should monitor the reason why he was deprived of participation in the Olympics. “I was neither given campuses nor sent aboard for training, so I do not regret not participating in the Paris Olympics,” Nooh reportedly said.
If ample resources and adequate training is provided, “it is not difficult to get a medal in the Olympics,” Nooh suggested.
Taking to Instagram to share his remarkable achievement and express immense gratitude, Nooh shared a set of pictures and wrote, “By Allah’s grace, I successfully defended my title three times in a row,” and added that he “secured first position at the recent Mens Classic National Powerlifting Championships (2024).”
Bagging “three new national records,” Nooh added the categories and the weight he lifted.
- Squats (330 Kg) NR
- Bench Press (208 Kg) NR
- Deadlift (300 Kg)
- Total (838 Kg) NR
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Nooh comes from a family of prominent Kashmiri weightlifting legacy. His father Ghulam Dastgir Butt, also participated in international weightlifting events, and coaches Nooh. His brother, Hanzala Dastgir Butt, is also a weightlifter who participated in the 2022 Commonwealth Games.
On 3 August 2022, Butt bagged Pakistan’s first gold medal at the 2022 Commonwealth Games when he won the men’s +109 kg weightlifting event. He lifted 173 kg in the snatch category, and 232 kg in clean and jerk, both Commonwealth Games records, for a combined lift of 405 kg.
