MediaMax, Armenia
Oct 23 2018
Armenian weightlifter Grigoryan wins silver in Junior European C’ship
Armenian weightlifting team has won the first medal in the European Junior Championship held in Zamosc, Poland.
Armen Grigoryan (69kg) won the silver after lifting 136kg in snatch and 165kg in clean and jerk. The total result of 301kg took Grigoryan’s point tally just one point short of the winner’s, Paul Dumitrascu (Romania), but it was enough to put Grigoryan on the second place of the podium.
Today another Armenian athletes will enter the competition, Rafik Harutyunyan and Ara Aghamyan (77 kg) from the U20 team.