JAKARTA – Sohrab Moradi of Iran broke weightlifting´s longest standingworld record on his way to gold in the men´s 94kg class at the Asian Gameson Saturday.

Moradi hoisted 189kg in the competition´s opening discipline to better thesnatch record set at 188kg in 1999 by Greece´s Akakios Kakiasvilis.

Moradi, who was suspended for two years in 2013 for testing positive forbanned painkiller methadone, but returned to win Olympic gold in Rio, nowhas a complete set of 94kg world records that will remain on the booksforever.

After the Asian Games all the sport´s weight classes will change ahead ofthe Olympic qualifying cycle beginning at November´s World Championships.

Moradi already owned the marks for the clean and jerk (233kg) and totalweight (417kg) in the men´s light heavyweight division which he set at theWorld Championships in Anaheim last year. – Agencies