Sports: Armenian lifters win more medals at European Championships

Emil Lazarian 2017
PanArmenian, Armenia
Oct 19 2017
Armenian lifters win more medals at European Championships

Lifters Davit Hovhannisyan (85kg weight category) and Karen Avagyan snatched more medals for Armenia at the 2017 European Junior Championships, currently underway Durres, Albania.

Hovhannisyan, in particular, won a silver medal after lifting a total of 343kg above his head, also securing silver in the snatch event.

Avagyan, meanwhile, won a bronze medal only in the snatch event, taking the fourth spot with a final result of 339kg.

Earlier, Izabella Yaylyan (58kg weight category) won three medals at the championships.

Armenia was among the nine countries suspended from weightlifting for a year on September 30 in an attempt to combat an epidemic of doping.

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