Weightlifter Varazdat Lalayan – junior world champion
13:00 - 08 Jun, 2019
Varazdat Lalayan was named a champion of the Junior World Championship ended in Fiji.
In the super heavy weight class (+109 kg) the Armenian representative registered total 419 kg (192+227) and lifted a kilo more than Iranian runner-up Ali Davudi.
On the last day of the Junior World Championship Armenia’s only female representative Arpine Dalalyan (+87 kg) performed in the women’s competition and ended up on the 4th place.
The Armenian weightlifter lifted 241 kg (101+140) in total while in the clean and jerk Dalalyan won a small bronze medal.
Earlier Karen Avagyan (89 kg) had placed 4th and Armen Grigoryan (73 kg) and Rafik Harutyunyan (81 kg) had come 6th.
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