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Place of Birth: Spitak, Lori Region, Armenia
About Armen Ghazaryan
- Armen Ghazaryan (Armenian: ????? ????????, born June 19, 1982 in Spitak, Armenian SSR) is an Armenian weightlifter who later represented Russia. Armen had a successful junior career.
- He won a silver medal at the 1997 under 16's Youth European Weightlifting Championships and won a gold medal at the 1998 under 16's Youth European Weightlifting Championships in La Coruna, Spain, becoming a Junior European Champion.
- Ghazaryan also won the bronze medal at the 1999 Junior World Championships under 56 kg category and the silver medal at the 2000 Junior World Championships under 62 kg category.
- Finally, Ghazaryan won the gold medal at the 2001 Junior World Championships in Thessaloniki and became a Junior World Champion. He competed for his native country Armenia at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, Greece, finishing in fourth place in the men's featherweight (62 kg) division.
- Though Ghazaryan lifted a total of 295 kg, the same as the bronze medalist, he took fourth place due to a personal weight difference.
- Ghazaryan would have won Armenia's only Olympic medal in 2004 had he won bronze. Ghazaryan later won a bronze medal at the 2006 European Weightlifting Championships.
- He also came in second on the clean & jerk at the 2006 World Weightlifting Championships. In May 2008 he became a Russian citizen and began representing Russia.
- He still remained close with his friends on the Armenian national weightlifting team.He won a silver medal at the 2010 World Weightlifting Championships as a Russian weightlifter.
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