TIGRAN MARTIROSIAN WINS EUROPEAN WEIGHTLIFTING CHAMPION TITLE
PanARMENIAN.Net
April 9, 2010 – 11:08 AMT 06:08 GMT
Championships silver winner and 2008 Olympic Games bronze winner,
Armenia’s Tigran Martirosyan (w/c up to 77kg) has won the champion’s
title at 2010 European Weightlifting Championships, lifting 360 kg in
snatch, clean & jerk combination and surpassing his nearest competitor
by 9 kg.
Lifting 165kg and 195kg in snatch and clean & jerk respectively,
Martirosyan won gold in each category.
Poland’s Krzysztof Szramiak came second, followed by Belarus’
Nikolai Chernyak.
Meline Daluzyan (w/c 69kg) as well as Ara Khachatryan and Gevorg
Poghosyan (w/c up to 85 kg) will enter competition on April 9.