Armenian weightlifting team’s staff going to the European Championship is known

16:00 - 10 Mar, 2016

Armenian weightlifting team will join in the European Championship with 10 athletes but the participants’ number can be changed yet.

The following weightlifters will come out at the European Championship which will be held in Forde, Norway; Vanik Avetisyan (69kg), Smbat Margaryan(56kg), Tigran Martirosyan, Andranik Karapetyan (77kg), Aghasi Aghasyan (85kg), Simon Martirosyan (105kg), Ruben Aleksanyan and Gor Minasyan (+105kg). Arakel Mirzoyan (85kg) and Rostam Karapetyan are also included in the staff but they may come out as a substitute.

The European Weightlifting Championship will be held from April 8-16.

Now the weightlifters are in a training camp in Tsaghkadzor.

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