Rahmat Erwin Abdullah

Abdullah is the only child of the former weightlifters Erwin Abdullah and Ami Asun Budiono. Erwin, who won silver medal at the 2002 Asian Games and originally qualified for the 2004 Summer Olympics, but was not allowed to compete due to injury. His mother Ami, won a gold medal at the 1995 SEA Games. ==Career==

At the 2019 Asian Junior Championships held in Pyongyang, North Korea, he participated in the 73 kg category, winning his first gold medal. At that time, he managed to lift 147 kg in the snatch and 179 kg in the clean and jerk category, bringing the overall total to 326 kg and finishing first above the North Korean lifter, Ko Myong-ho. After that competition, he participated in the 2019 SEA Games which was held in the Philippines. At that time he won the second gold medal in international competitions after defeating Vietnamese lifter, Phạm Tuấn Anh with a total lift of 322 kg while Vietnamese lifter with 304 kg. Not only that, when he started the first international competition in 2020 at the 2020 Asian Junior Championships which was held in Tashkent, Uzbekistan, he won the third gold medal for his international competition after defeating Iranian lifter Mir Mostafa Javadi. He represented Indonesia at the 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo, Japan and won a bronze medal. He won the gold medal in the men's 73kg event at the 2022 World Weightlifting Championships held in Bogotá, Colombia. He sets new world record in jerk two times with 202 kg and 204 kg. == Awards and nominations ==