page_title: Tamás Molnár (powerlifter)
section_title: Sports career
hierarchical_section_title: Tamás Molnár (powerlifter) / Sports career
caption_attribution_description: English: GPC World Championships, 2013 Argentina, Iguazu Falls
context_page_description: Tamás Molnár is a powerlifter and world champion. From 1997, he joined the junior and senior national team, and topped national records several times in deadlift. From 2012, he is a professional sportsman and in 2014, he garnered the first place in Argentina at the GPC World Championship.
context_section_description: His participated in his first competition in 1993 at the county squat and bench press championship in Sopron, Hungary (3rd place in the 82.5 kg category; squat, 147.5 kg); afterwards he pursued training under the supervision of multiple powerlifting champion József Horváth and in 1995, he won a junior national champion titlein the 90 kg weight category. 
  After his first national record in 1997, he joined the junior and senior national team and then another weight category (100 kg). 
  In 1998, he won the senior national champion title and 5th place at the junior world championship (822.5 kg combined total).
  In 2000, at the Danube Cup in Banovce, Slovakia, he was an absolute winner (832.5 kg, combined total), raising the national and Danube Cup records in deadlift to 332.5 kg, a performance unparalleled ever since. He participated in his last amateur competition in 2003, winning 6th place at the senior national championship.
  
  Following a break of ten years, he started his career as a professional sportsman (2012) in deadlift (trainer: Sándor Freimann). After preparing for 8 weeks, he won first place in his weight category at the Atlasz Deadlift Gala in Balassagyarmat, Hungary (280 kg, RAW category). More success followed: European Champion (WPC EB, Portugal, 2013); world champion (WPC World Championship, Prague, 2013). In 2014, he topped his own results and became absolute winner in deadlift at the Scitec RAW Cup of Budapest, Hungary (320 kg, deadlift).
  He obtained the best results of his professional career at the GPC European Championship in Trutnov, Czech Republic: with a deadlift of 327.5 kg, he won first place in the absolute category.
  The next milestone was the GPC World Championship (Iguazu Falls, Argentina, 2014), where he became absolute world champion in the RAW category. Currently he is taking a longer leave from competitions, to rest.
caption: GPC World Championships, 2013 Argentina, Iguazu Falls
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