| Birth Date: | 10 January 1992 |
| Birth Place: | Peqin, Albania |
Daniel Godelli (born 10 January 1992, in Peqin) is an Albanian weightlifter, and Olympian[1] [2] competing in the 69 kg and 77 kg categories until 2018 and 81 kg starting in 2018 after the International Weightlifting Federation reorganized the categories.[3]
He has won various medals, most notably the gold medal at the 2014 World Championship in Almaty, but his results at Almaty were later disqualified due to testing positive for doping.[4]
The most notable achievement during Godelli's youth activities was winning the gold medal on the World Junior Championships in 2011.[5] In this year, also he won bronze medal at 2011 European Weightlifting Championships in Kazan.[6]
In 2013, he won a silver (big) medal in the 2013 European Weightlifting Championships in Tirana, Albania.[7] He had silver in Snatch and gold in Clean&Jerk.
In 2014, he repeated himself with a silver (big) medal, but in the 77 kg category, and lost the gold medal to Erkand Qerimaj only for a slightly heavier body weight, as he had lifted the same combined weight as Qerimaj, 349 kg.[8]
He initially won a gold medal at the 2014 World Weightlifting Championships in the 77 kg category, and in doing so became Albania's first World Champion.[9] The results were later disqualified as Godelli failed an anti-doping test for the steroid Stanozolol,[10] [11] as a result he was banned from competition until 10 December 2016.
| Year | Venue | Weight | Snatch (kg) | Clean & Jerk (kg) | Total | Rank | |||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| width=60 | 1 | width=60 | 2 | width=60 | 3 | width=45 | Rank | width=60 | 1 | width=60 | 2 | width=60 | 3 | width=45 | Rank |
| World Championships | |||||||||||||||
| align=left | 135 | 140 | 13 | 167 | 172 | 177 | 5 | 317 | 7 | ||||||
| align=left | 140 | 143 | 146 | 6 | 165 | – | – | 32 | 311 | 20 | |||||
| align=left | 147 | 4 | 175 | 7 | 322 | 7 | |||||||||
| align=left | 163 | 167 | 171 | – | 195 | 198 | – | – | DSQ | ||||||
| align=left | 156 | 10 | – | – | – | ||||||||||