page_title: Eko Yuli Irawan
section_title: Career
hierarchical_section_title: Eko Yuli Irawan / Career
caption_attribution_description: President Jokowi poses with gold medalists of 2016 Rio de Janeiro Olympic Games Tontowi Yahya and Liliyana Natsir, and silver medalists Sri Wahyuni and Eko Yuli on Wednesday (24/ 8), at the State Palace, Jakarta
context_page_description: Eko Yuli Irawan is an Indonesian weightlifter, Olympian, and World Champion competing in the 62 kg category until 2018 and 61 kg starting in 2018 after the International Weightlifting Federation reorganized the categories.
  In his career he has won three medals at the Summer Olympics, five medals at world championships, and three medals at the Asian Games, including a gold in 2018.
context_section_description: Irawan's father worked as a paddle rickshaw driver, while his mother was selling vegetables. Irawan took up weightlifting in 2000. At the 2006 Junior World Championships he won the silver medal in the 56 kg category, lifting 269 kg in total.
  At the 2007 Junior World Championships he won the gold medal in the 56 kg category, lifting 273 kg in total.
  Irawan ranked eighth at the 2006 World Championships in the 56 kg category. At the 2007 World Championships he won the bronze medal in the 56 kg category, lifting 278 kg in total.
  Irawan won gold medals at the 2007 Southeast Asian Games and 2018 Asian Games.
  At the 2008 Asian Championships he won the silver medal in the 62 kg category, lifting 305 kg in total.
  Irawan won the bronze medal in the 56 kg category at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, lifting 288 kg in total. He won the silver medal in the 62 kg category at the 2009 World Weightlifting Championships, with 315 kg in total. At the 2011 World Championships he won the bronze medal in the 62 kg category, lifting 310 kg in total.
  Irawan won his second consecutive Olympic bronze medal in 2012, lifting 317 kg in total. He improved to a silver medal at the 2016 Rio Olympics. He also become world champion in newly created 61 kg category in world weightlifting championship 2018 in Ashgbat, Turkmenistan, also world record holder in clean & jerk at 174 kg and world record holder in total lift at 317 kg in that category.
caption: 2016 Summer Olympics medalists at the State Palace in Jakarta. Left-right: Ahmad, Natsir, Widodo, Agustiani and Irawan.
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