Arsen Melikyan

Arsen Melikyan (Armenian: Արսեն Մելիքյան, born 17 May 1976) is an Armenian weightlifter.[1]

Arsen Melikyan
Personal information
Born (1976-05-17) 17 May 1976
Yerevan, Armenian SSR, Soviet Union
Medal record
Men's Weightlifting
Representing  Armenia
Olympic Games
2000 Sydney77 kg
European Championships
2005 Sofia85 kg

Melikyan won an Olympic bronze medal at the 2000 Summer Olympics by snatching 365 kg.[2] He became the first Olympian from the independent Republic of Armenia to win an Olympic bronze medal for weightlifting, a first for the country. Melikyan later won a bronze medal at the 2005 European Weightlifting Championships.

References

  1. "Arsen Melikyan". www.whoislog.info. Retrieved 27 January 2013.
  2. "Arsen Melikyan, Top Olympic Lifters of the 20th Century @ Lift Up". www.chidlovski.net. Retrieved 2020-07-27.


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