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Sports: Armenian lifter Hakob Mkrtchyan secures bronze at European Championships

Public Radio of Armenia
April 9 2021

Armenian lifter Hakob Mkrtchyan won a bronze medal at the European Weightlifting Championships under way in Moscow, Russia.

Two representatives of Armenia, Hakob Mkrtchyan and Davit Hovhannisyan, competed in the 96 kg weight category.. Davit Hovhannisyan lifted 165 kg in the snatch, abut failed to get points in the clean and jerk.

Hakob Mkrtchyan lifted 160 kg, but the next two approaches were unsuccessful. In the clean and jerk the athlete won a small silver medal with a result of 212 kg.

He secured the third place in the overall ranking with a result of 372 kg.

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