EIGHT REPUBLICAN RECORDS RECORDED IN ARMENIAN WEIGHTLIFTING YOUTH CHAMPIONSHIP

Noyan Tapan
April 11, 2008

YEREVAN, APRIL 11, NOYAN TAPAN. The Armenian Weightlifting Youth
Championship finished in Vanadzor on April 9. 110 sportsmen took part
in this championship. Smbat Margarian (56 kg), David Galstian (69 kg),
Aghasi Aghasian (77 kg), Aghvan Melikian (85 kg), Taron Simonian (94
kg, all of them from Yerevan), and Ruben Mamoyan (62 kg, Etchmiadzin)
became winners in their weight categories.

Two weightlifters also became authors of republican records. Sevak
Manukian (105 kg, Kasakh) showed a result of 387 kg in the biathlon and
established a record. Super heavy weight Ruben Aleksanian (Ararat) with
a summed up 410 kg established five republican records in the biathlon.