2024-06-13 20:00:32
The weightlifting groups of girls and boys aged 20 and 23 of Armenia returned to Yerevan tonight.
The groups, taking part within the European Youth Championship with incomplete groups, gained a complete of 32 medals, of which 18 had been gold, 8 had been silver, and 6 had been bronze.
The NAOC informs that the weightlifters had been welcomed on the “Zvartnots” airport by Gagik Tsarukyan, the President of the NAOC, the RA Minister of Sports activities and Youth Affairs, the Basic Secretary of the NAOC Hrachya Rostomyan, many representatives of the sports activities world, kin and pals of the weightlifters, sports activities followers.
“The victories of our athletes are solely a supply of pleasure and don’t want remark. The work executed produces the outcomes. 18 gold, 8 silver, 6 bronze medals is a really respectable end result. What’s extra, all of the strongest weightlifting international locations participated within the European Championship.
In Albania, Simon Martirosyan repeated the European report of his age group within the snatch train, and set a brand new excessive achievement within the push train. If he had proven that lead to Rio de Janeiro, he would have grow to be an Olympic champion. Our present 20- and 23-year-old champions proved that they don’t have any competitors. They need to take part within the Summer time Olympic Video games in Tokyo and attempt to show the identical there as nicely,” Gagik Tsarukyan advised reporters.