Sports: Junior World Weightlifting Championships: Armenia’s Garik Karapetyan becomes gold medalist

News.am, Armenia

Nov 23 2023

Garik Karapetyan (Armenia) won the men’s 102kg title at the 2023 Junior World Weightlifting Championships being held in Guadalajara, Mexico.

Karapetyan lifted a combined weight of 378 kg: 175 kg in Snatch and 203 kg in the Clean and Jerk.

Team Armenia already had won two gold medals in combined total. In women’s 55kg category, this was achieved by Aleksandra Grigoryan (188 kg, 81+107), and in men’s 67kg category—by Gor Sahakyan (305 kg, 140+165). And Martin Poghosyan had won the bronze medal in the Clean and Jerk in the men’s 73kg category, by lifting 171 kg.

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