Sports: Weightlifter Gor Minasyan declared champion, Simon Martirosyan came the third

Panorama, Armenia

Feb 15 2019

19:49 15/02/2019 Armenia

Armenian Weightlifting Men’s Championship 2019 concluded on Friday in Yerevan with athletes competing in the 96kg and 102kg weight class. As the National Olympic Committee reported, Samvel Gasparyan competing in the 109 kg weight class was named the winner of the competition with the double-event of 356kg.

The struggle for the title of the champion was tense among weightlifters competing in the 102 kg weight category. Gor Minasyan was out of competition, scoring 428 kg in the double event. Ruben Alexanyan came the second, while world champion Simon Martirosyan took the bronze medal with 421 kg total weight.

The Armenian team will head for Tsakhkadzor on February 17 for a training camp, the source said.

Emil Lazarian

“I should like to see any power of the world destroy this race, this small tribe of unimportant people, whose wars have all been fought and lost, whose structures have crumbled, literature is unread, music is unheard, and prayers are no more answered. Go ahead, destroy Armenia . See if you can do it. Send them into the desert without bread or water. Burn their homes and churches. Then see if they will not laugh, sing and pray again. For when two of them meet anywhere in the world, see if they will not create a New Armenia.” - WS