More than 4,000 people turned up hoping to cheer their Armenian heroes to victory on the final day of the European Weightlifting Championships here in Yerevan, but instead they saw another masterful display by Lasha Talakhadze. The audience of 4,400, the biggest crowd this century to watch a single session at the European Championships, roared […]
Europe’s female weightlifter of the year Solfrid Koanda won another continental title on an entertaining day at the European Championships in Yerevan, her final outing before she cuts weight to lift in the Olympic 81kg category. In her past three competitions Koanda has won two continental titles and become Norway’s first ever female world champion. […]
Weightlifters from host nation Armenia were roared on to the podium by a big crowd at the European Championships here in Yerevan. Davit Hovhannisyan and Ara Aghanyan, first and second last year in Albania, repeated the feat in front of their own fans, helped by a slew of red lights for rivals from France and […]
The world’s most remarkable teenage weightlifter claimed two more senior world records along with the continental 89 kilograms title on day six of the European Championships. Karlos Nasar made five good lifts and declined the last one having already bettered his own world best in clean and jerk and claimed the total record from Italy’s […]