First Medal Won by an Armenian at the 2016 Olympic Games
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Simon Martirosyan (born in 1997) became Armenia’s first medal winner at the 2016 Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, after winning a silver in men’s 105 kg weightlifting on August 15, the Armenian Weeky reports.
Martirosyan lifted a total of 417 kg, and was second only after Ruslan Nurudinov of Uzbekistan, who set an Olympic record with a total weight of 431 kg.
Martirosyan has previously won a gold medal at the 2014 Summer Youth Olympics and a bronze medal in the 2016 European Weightlifting Championships.
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