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Sports: Gor Minasyan is crowned Armenia champion

News.am, Armenia
Feb 5 2021
Gor Minasyan is crowned Armenia champion | NEWS.am Sport – All about sports

By Lusine Shahbazyan

The Armenian Men’s Weightlifting Championship ended in Yerevan, on the last day of which the super heavyweights (+109 kg) competed.

Gor Minasyan, silver medalist of the Rio 2016 Olympic Games, was crowned the champion in this weight category, by lifting a total of 435 kg.

The champions in the other weight categories are: Garnik Cholakyan (55 kg), Andranik Papeyan (61 kg), Monte Mkhitaryan (67 kg), Nshan Antonyan (73 kg), Karen Margaryan (81 kg), Andranik Karapetyan (89 kg), David Hovhannisyan (96 kg), Arsen Martirosyan (102 kg), and Samvel Gasparyan (109 kg).

More than 100 athletes participated in the Armenian Men’s Weightlifting Championships in ten weight categories.

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