Rafael Chimishkyan

Rafael Arkadyevich Chimishkyan (Georgian: რაფაელ ჩიმიშკიანი, Russian: Рафаэль Аркадьевич Чимишкян), born March 23, 1929) is a former weightlifter who competed for the Soviet Union and Olympic, World, European and Soviet Champion. Chimishkyan was awarded the Honoured Master of Sports of the USSR title in 1952. He is an honorary citizen of Tbilisi.

Rafael Chimishkyan
Medal record
Men's Weightlifting
Representing  Soviet Union
Olympic Games
1952 Helsinki -60 kg
World Championships
1950 Paris -56 kg
1953 Stockholm -60 kg
1954 Vienna -60 kg
1955 Munich -60 kg
European Championships
1950 Paris -56 kg
1952 Helsinki -60 kg
1953 Stockholm -60 kg
1954 Vienna -60 kg
1955 Munich -60 kg
1956 Helsinki -60 kg
1957 Katowice -60 kg
USSR Weightlifting Championships
1949 Voronezh -56 kg
1950 Kharkiv -60 kg
1951 Kaunas -60 kg
1952 Ivanovo -60 kg
1953 Tallinn -60 kg
1954 Petrozavodsk -60 kg
1955 Minsk -60 kg
1956 Moscow -60 kg
1957 Lviv -60 kg
1958 Stalino -60 kg
1960 Leningrad -60 kg
1962 Tbilisi -60 kg

Biography

Chimishkyan was born in Tbilisi, Georgian SSR. He started weightlifting in 1946. In his first Soviet Championship in 1949, he won a gold medal at bantamweight (56 kg). In 1950, Chimishkyan won silver at the World Weightlifting Championships and gold at the European Weightlifting Championships and then switched to featherweight (60 kg). He first won a silver at the Soviet Championships that year in this new category. Chimishkyan became a two-time World Champion (1954 and 1955), six-time European Champion (1950, 1952, 1954–57) and five-time USSR Champion (1949, 1951, 1954, 1955, 1960).

Chimishkyan won an Olympic gold medal at the 1952 Summer Olympics in Helsinki. He is the second Soviet weightlifter to become an Olympic Champion.[1] Chimishkyan set 10 world records during his career: three in the snatch, two in the clean and jerk and five in the total.

References
  1. "1952 Summer Olympics – Helsinki, Finland – Weightlifting" Archived 2007-08-27 at the Wayback Machine – databaseOlympics.com (Retrieved on February 23, 2008)
  • Rafael Chimishkyan at Lift Up
  • Evans, Hilary; Gjerde, Arild; Heijmans, Jeroen; Mallon, Bill; et al. "Rafael Chimishkyan". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Archived from the original on 2020-04-18.
  • databaseOlympics.com
  • Rafael Chimishkyan at Olympedia
  • Rafael Chimishkyan at Olympics at Sports-Reference.com (archived)
  • Rafael Chimishkyan at databaseOlympics.com (archived)
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