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Born | Yerevan, Armenian SSR, Soviet Union | 17 May 1976||||||||||||||||||||
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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.
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Born | Yerevan, Armenian SSR, Soviet Union | 17 May 1976||||||||||||||||||||
Medal record
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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.