WEIGHT-LIFTERS OF ARMENIA AWARDED SILVER AND BRONZE MEDALS IN EUROPE
CHAMPIONSHIP, AS A RESULT OF COMPETITORS’ DISQUALIFICATIONS

YEREVAN, SEPTEMBER 8, NOYAN TAPAN. Genady Oleshchuk (Belarus), the
champion of the Europe Championship of weight-lifting held in May in
Poland, was disqualified for using doping drugs, owing to what Armen
Ghazarian (69 kg, Spitak), who had got the 4th place, rose higher,
on the 3rd horizontal line.

According to the Noyan Tapan correspondent’s information, the blood
analysis result of Valentina Popova (Russia) of 75 kg weight category
was not clean, either.

Intead of her, already former bronze medal winner Hripsime Khurshudian
(Kasakh) will get the silver medal of the Europe Championship.