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    Emil Lazarian
  • 7 years ago
    • Categories: 2019

Sports: 9 athletes to represent Armenia at World Weightlifting Championships

News.am, Armenia
Sept 18 2019

Nine athletes will represent Armenian at the World Weightlifting Championships in Pattaya, Thailand from 18 to 27 September.

The Armenian men’s team features Andranik Karapetyan (81 kg), Hakob Mkrtchyan (89 kg), Davit Hovhannisyan (89 kg), Samvel Gasparyan (102 kg), Simon Martirosyan (109 kg), Gor Minasyan (+109 kg) and Ruben Alexanyan (+109 kg), while the women’s team includes Izabella Yaylyan (59 kg) and Tatev Hakobyan (87 kg).

The championship is a qualifying event for the Olympic Games Tokyo 2020. 

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