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    Emil Lazarian
  • 9 months ago
    • Categories: 2024

Weightlifter Varazdat Lalayan – European champion, Simon Martirosyan – vice-champion

 19:51,

YEREVAN, FEBRUARY 20, ARMENPRESS.  The European Weightlifting Championships in Sofia, the capital of Bulgaria, have come to an end. On the last, the 9th day of the competition, super heavyweight weightlifters entered the fight.

Varazdat Lalayan won the gold medal in the weight category +109 kg at the European Weightlifting Championships in Sofia, lifting 455 kg (205+250).

Another representative of Armenia in this weight category Simon Martirosyan became the silver medalist with the result of 437 kg (190+247).

Armenian Ambassador to Bulgaria Armen Yedigaryan took part in the award ceremony of the heavyweight category.

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