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    Emil Lazarian
  • 5 years ago
    • Categories: 2021

Sports: Seven Armenian athletes to compete in Junior World Weightlifting Championships

Panorama, Armenia

The 2021 IWF Junior World Weightlifting Championships will kick off in Tashkent, Uzbekistan on May 23, with seven Armenian athletes set to take part in it, the Armenian National Olympic Committee reported on Friday.

Armenian weightlifters Gor Sahakyan (67 kg), Karen Margaryan (81 kg), Suren Grigoryan (81 kg), Garik Karapetyan (96 kg), Petros Petrosyan (102 kg), Milena Khachatryan (71 kg) and Liana Gyurjyan (81 kg) left for Tashkent early on Friday to compete in the championships.

They were accompanied by coaches Melik Ghukasyan, Hakob Filosyan and Taron Tovmasyan.

The head coach of the Armenian national weightlifting team, international referee Pashik Alaverdyan will be part of the Referees Committee. 

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