Gevorik Poghosyan ( hy, Գեվորիկ Պողոսյան, born March 13, 1984, in

Yerevan Yerevan ( , , hy, Երևան , sometimes spelled Erevan) is the capital and largest city of Armenia and one of the world's List of oldest continuously inhabited cities, oldest continuously inhabited cities. Situated along the Hrazdan River, Y ...

Armenia Armenia (), , group=pron officially the Republic of Armenia,, is a landlocked country in the Armenian Highlands of Western Asia.The UNbr>classification of world regions places Armenia in Western Asia; the CIA World Factbook , , and ''Ox ...

) is an

weightlifter Olympic weightlifting, or Olympic-style weightlifting (officially named Weightlifting), is a sport in which athletes compete in lifting a barbell loaded with weight plates from the ground to overhead, with each athlete trying to successfully lift ...

. He won a gold medal at the

2010 European Weightlifting Championships The 2010 European Weightlifting Championships was held in Minsk, Belarus from 2 April to 11 April 2010. It was the 89th edition of the event, which was first staged in 1896. Medals tables Ranking by all medals: "Big" (Total result) and "Sma ...

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Gevorik Poghosyan at Lift Up
1984 births Living people Sportspeople from Yerevan Armenian male weightlifters European champions in weightlifting European champions for Armenia European Weightlifting Championships medalists 21st-century Armenian people {{Armenia-weightlifting-bio-stub