2024-04-30 16:36:34
The youth weightlifting team of Armenia won 5 medals at the world championship held in Heraklion, Greece.
From the Armenian team, Garnik Cholakyan (55 kg) and Garik Karapetyan (96 kg) became gold medal winners, Suren Grigoryan (89 kg) and Petros Petrosyan (102 kg) won silver medals, and Gor Sahakyan (67 kg) won bronze medals.
The second gold medal for the Armenian national team was won by 96 kg Garik Karapetyan with a result of 370 kg in the double event (170 + 200). By the way, he was declared the youth world champion for the second year in a row.
In the snatch exercise, Karapetyan was the last to start the fight, snatching 160 kg in the first approach, 164 kg in the second, and then 170 kg, winning the small gold medal. In the push exercise, the Armenian weightlifter first held 190 kg, then 195 and 200 kg barbells above his head. Karapetyan won a small bronze medal in this exercise as well.
Moldovan Tudor Bratu (364 kg) won the silver medal in this weight category, and Egyptian Yasser Osama Hemda won the bronze medal (359 kg). Suren Grigoryan became a silver medalist in the 89 kg competition with a result of 340 kg (155 + 185). In the snatch exercise, the Armenian weightlifter won a small bronze medal with a result of 155 kg, and in the push exercise with a result of 185 kg, he again won a small bronze medal.
Ukrainian representative Maksim Dombrovsky (345 kg) won the gold medal, while Egyptian Gamal Mohamed (339 kg) won the bronze medal. In this weight class, the other representative of Armenia, Gevorg Ghahramanyan, finished the snatch exercise by holding the 145 kg barbell above his head, and in the push exercise he ordered 190 kg, but, failing all three approaches, he got zero and was left out of the medals.
Milena Khachatryan, the only representative of Armenia (81 kg), took the 7th position in the girls’ fight with a result of 211 kg (96+115).
Petros Petrosyan, weighing 102 kg, was the last member of the Armenian youth team to take the stage and became the silver medalist with a result of 363 kg. The Armenian weightlifter finished the snatch exercise with 161 kg, and the push exercise with 202 kg. In this weight category, the gold medal was won by the representative of Uzbekistan, Sharofidin Amridinov (372 kg), and the bronze medalist was the representative of Palestine, Hamada Mohamed (361 kg).
9 weightlifters went to the competition as part of the Armenian youth team.