Olympic champion Yuri Vardanyan is in a satisfactory condition after emergency surgery on a thigh bone and shin injuries he sustained in a car crash, Nairi Medical Center physician, Siranush Martirosyan told PanARMENIAN.Net.

Olympic champion Yuri Vardanyan was injured in car accident on October 8.

Vardanyan’s Lexus ran into a tractor on Yerevan-Gyumri highway. The famed weightlifter was taken to hospital in Ashtarak town and later on to Yerevan’s Nairi Medical Center, Emergency Channel reported.