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 (Armenian: Ռուբեն Ալեքսանյան; born March 14, 1990 in Yerevan[1]) is a weightlifter from Armenia. He won a gold medal at the 2009 European Championships in Władysławowo, Poland,[2] and a silver medal at the 2010 European Championships in Minsk, Belarus.[3] 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),[3] 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.[4]

References

  1. Ruben Aleksanyan at sports-reference.com
  2. "Ruben Aleksanyan-European Champion". News.am. 19 November 2009. Retrieved 12 April 2010.
  3. 1 2 "Evgeny Ghigishev y Andrei Aramnov ganan las últimas medallas". adn.es. 11 April 2010. Archived from the original on 19 July 2011. Retrieved 12 April 2010.
  4. "ALEKSANYAN Ruben". Rio 2016. Archived from the original on 2016-08-15. Retrieved 2016-08-17.
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