Armenian weightlifters win medals at U15 European ChampionshipsAugust 4, 2015 - 14:40 AMT PanARMENIAN.Net - Armenia’s Armen Grigoryan and Rafik Harutyunyan (56kg) won gold and silver medals respectively at the U15 European Weightlifting Championship in Landskrona, Sweden. With an excellent performance on Monday, Aug 3, Grigoryan showed the best result - 94kg, with Harutyunyan coming in the second - 87kg. Grigoryan won a gold medal with a total score of 211kg, while Harutyunyan secured a silver with lifting 204kg. Babken Bagratyan (50kg) finished 6th. Top stories Armenian gymnast, Olympic bronze medalist Artur Davtyan has reached the finals of the World Cup. Gor Manvelyan has denied reports alleging that he has expressed a desire to one day play for the French national team. Roma midfielder Henrikh Mkhitaryan is not considering FC Spartak Moscow as his next haven, according to fresh reports. 10 Armenian lifters will compete in the 2021 World Championships scheduled to be held from 7 to 17 December in Tashkent. Partner news | Russia clarifying reports on Baku’s alleged arms supply to Ukraine Russia says is carefully working to verify reports about alleged arms supplies from Azerbaijan to Ukraine Russia warns Armenia against “falling into West’s trap” Zakharova maintained, however, that anything that will benefit the people of Armenia can only be welcomed. CSTO: Armenia has not participated in secretariat’s work recently Recently Armenia has not participated in the work of the secretariat of the CSTO, Imangali Tasmagambetov said. Meeting with U.S., EU not against third parties, says Armenia The meeting scheduled for April 5 is dedicated to strengthening of the Armenia-EU-US cooperation, Yerevan added. |