Asbarez: Armenia’s Alexandra Grigoryan Becomes European Weightlifting Champ

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Alexandra Grigoryan named European Weightlifting Champion

Armenian national team member Alexandra Grigoryan won the title of champion at the European Weightlifting Championships, which kicked off on Monday in the Bulgarian capital Sofia.

The Armenian weightlifter registered the result of 196 kg (81+115). In this weight category the second representative of Armenia, European bronze medalist, participant of the Olympic Games in Tokyo Izabella Yaylyan, took the 7th place. She registered a result of 180 kg (80+100).

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