Sports: Armenian weightlifter named world champion

Emil Lazarian 2019
Panorama, Armenia
Sept 23 2019
Sport 20:20 23/09/2019 Armenia

Armenian weightlifter Hakob Mkrtchyan competing in the 89 kg weight category won gold moments ago at the World Weightlifting Championships in Pattaya, Thailand. Mkrtchyan was named champion with a total of 360 kg result.

To note, the championship is a qualifying event for the Olympic Games Tokyo 2020.

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