Ruben Aleksanyan

Ruben Aleksanyan

Ruben Aleksanyan at 2016 Olympics
Personal information
Born (1990-03-14) March 14, 1990
Height 1.80 m (5 ft 11 in)
Weight 152 kg (335 lb)
Sport
Country  Armenia
Sport Weightlifting
Event(s) +105 kg

Ruben Aleksanyan (born March 14, 1990) is a weightlifter from Armenia. He won a gold medal at the 2009 European Championships in Władysławowo, Poland,[1] and a silver medal at the 2010 European Championships in Minsk, Belarus.[2] He was still under twenty years of age when he lifted a combined total of 432 kg (195 kg in the snatch and 237 kg in the clean and jerk),[2] which was a European Under-20 record, in losing to Evgeny Chigishev. He competed at the 2016 Summer Olympics in the Men's +105 kg.[3]

References

  1. "Ruben Aleksanyan-European Champion". News.am. 19 November 2009. Retrieved 12 April 2010.
  2. 1 2 "Evgeny Ghigishev y Andrei Aramnov ganan las últimas medallas". adn.es. 11 April 2010. Retrieved 12 April 2010.
  3. "ALEKSANYAN Ruben". Rio 2016. Retrieved 2016-08-17.
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