Crowd takes its hat off to UK weightlifter

Britain's Sonny Webster competes during the men's weightlifting 94kg event at the Rio 2016 Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro on August 13, 2016 / AFP PHOTO / GOH Chai Hin

Britain's Sonny Webster competes during the men's weightlifting 94kg event at the Rio 2016 Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro on August 13, 2016 / AFP PHOTO / GOH Chai Hin

Published Aug 16, 2016

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Rio de Janeiro - Showboating British weightlifter Sonny Webster claimed a unique Olympic record on Saturday in the men's 94kg competition at the Rio Games.

"There's only one record I broke today - first man to ever compete in the Olympics with a hat on back to front!" he laughed.

The 22-year-old Englishman delighted a 4,000-strong crowd with his theatrics, confidently swaggering up to the barbell and then lifting - all with a baseball cap on the wrong way round.

"If it's the only record I broke it's a good one!" Webster said afterwards.

"It's always on backwards because if I hit it off, which happens sometimes when I have it on the other way, then it would be a no lift," he added.

Webster, competing in his first Games, lifted 148kg in the snatch and 185 in the clean and jerk for a combined total of 333 and sixth place in the Group B section.

AFP

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