Armenia’s herculean Simon Martirosyan wins European Weightlifting Championship heavyweight crown SECOND time
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YEREVAN, APRIL 13, ARMENPRESS. Armenia’s heavyweight weightlifter Simon Martirosyan has won the European Weightlifting Federation (EWF) European Championship in Batumi, Georgia with a 424kg clean and jerk result.
This is Martirosyan’s second EWF title, first being in 2017. Earlier in 2016, he won silver in the 2016 summer Olympics.
The 22-year-old has also won gold at the 2018 World Championship.
Edited and translated by Stepan Kocharyan
