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Arsen Melikyan (Armenian: Արսեն Մելիքյան, born 17 May 1976) is an Armenian weightlifter.[1]
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
[edit]- ^ "Arsen Melikyan". www.whoislog.info. Retrieved 27 January 2013.
- ^ "Arsen Melikyan, Top Olympic Lifters of the 20th Century @ Lift Up". www.chidlovski.net. Retrieved 2020-07-27.
External links
[edit]- Evans, Hilary; Gjerde, Arild; Heijmans, Jeroen; Mallon, Bill; et al. "Arsen Melikyan". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Archived from the original on 2020-04-18.
- Arsen Melikyan at Lift Up
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