SOFIA — Armenian weightlifters had a 1-2 finish in European Weightlifting Championship in the Bulgarian capital, Sofia in which third and fourth places both went to individual neutral athletes from Belarus.
There was a tense head-to-head contest between Hakob Mkrtchyan and the double champion Davit Hovhannisyan in men’s 96kg, catagory.
When Mkrtchyan made all three clean and jerks for 166-209-375, Hovhannisyan had to make 210kg with his last lift for a third straight European title. He failed, finishing 169-205-374 for second place. Mkrtchyan, 26, was world and European champion at 89kg in 2019 but had not won since then, until tonight. Pavel Khadasevich made only two good lifts for 165-195-360, enough for third place ahead of his team-mate Yulian Kurlovich, who took clean and jerk bronze on 157-196-353. Tudor Bratu from Moldova may have to return to the podium on Monday after a good performance in the 102kg B Group.
YEREVAN -- Russia will withdraw its troops and border guards from Armenia’s border with Azerbaijan,…
SACRAMENTO -- On a working visit to the US, Armenian President Vahagn Khachaturyan met with…
MOSCOW -- Russian-Armenian relations are “developing very successfully,” Russia’s President Vladimir Putin said late on…
YEREVAN -- Armenia will not participate in financing the Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO) activities,…
YEREVN -- The Armenian government announced on Wednesday that it will borrow 236 million euros…
YEREVN -- The Armenian government has initiated the process of delimitation of the Armenian-Azerbaijani border…
