Amenia’s Nazik Avdalyan won the European Weightlifting Championship in the women’s 69 kg category with a total result of 237 kg.
Nazik lifted 105 kg in the snatch and 132 kg in the clean & jerk.
She dedicated the victory to the all Armenian soldiers fighting in Karabakh.
Two other Armenian weightlifters Andranik Karapetyan and Tigran Martirosyan won gold and silver respectively in an all-Armenian competition for the European title.
The European Weightlifting Championships are under way in Norway.
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