Simon Martirosyan

Simon Martirosyan
Personal information
Born (1997-02-17) February 17, 1997
Height 1.81 m (5 ft 11 1⁄2 in)
Weight 105 kg (231 lb)
Sport
Country  Armenia
Sport Weightlifting
Event(s) 105 kg
Medal record
Olympic Games
2016 Rio de Janeiro – 105 kg
European Championships
2016 Førde -105 kg
Youth Olympic Games
2014 Nanjing +85 kg

Simon Martirosyan (Armenian: Սիմոն Մարտիրոսյան; born 17 February 1997 in Haykashen) is an Armenian weightlifter.

He is the current youth world record holder for the snatch, the clean and jerk and total in the +94 kg division.

Martirosyan won a gold medal at the 2014 Summer Youth Olympics.[1] He won a bronze medal in 2016 European Weightlifting Championships. He competed for Armenia in the 2016 Summer Olympics, where he won the silver medal in the men's 105 kg competition.[2]

References

  1. ↑ "Simon Martirosyan becomes Youth olympic champion with world record". Armenpress. 2014-08-23.
  2. ↑ "Simon Martirosyan Wins Armenia's First Medal at Rio Olympics". Armenian Weekly. 2016-08-15. Retrieved 2016-08-16.


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