Sports: Armenia’s Martirosyan becomes 2-time European champion (PHOTOS)

Emil Lazarian 2019
News.am, Armenia

By Lusine Shahbazyan

BATUMI. – Simon Martirosyan (Armenia) on Saturday won the champion’s title in the Men’s 109kg competition at the 2019 European Senior Weightlifting Championships which are wrapping up in Batumi, Georgia.

The 22-year-old Rio 2016 Olympic Games’ silver medalist, 2018 world champion and record holder, and 2017 European champion lifted a combined weight of 427 kilograms.

Photos by Arsen Sargsyan

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