Armenian Weightlifter Arakel Mirzoyan Becomes Vice Champion Of World

ARMENIAN WEIGHTLIFTER ARAKEL MIRZOYAN BECOMES VICE CHAMPION OF WORLD

Noyan Tapan
Nov 23, 2009

GOYANG, NOVEMBER 23, NOYAN TAPAN. At the 2009 World Weightlifting
Championships held in the South Korean city of Goyang, weightlifters
in the men’s 69 kg class competed on November 22. Arakel Mirzoyan of
Armenia snatched 154 kg, clean and jerked 180 kg and with a total
of 334 kg took second place and won the silver medal. He also won
the bronze medal in snatch. Arakel is the son of weightlifter Ogsen
Mirzoyan, a champion of the Olympic Games.

From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress

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