Hovhannes Barseghyan ( hy, Հովհաննէս Բարսեղյան, born February 11, 1970, in

Leninakan Gyumri ( hy, Գյումրի, ) is an urban municipal community and the second-largest city in Armenia, serving as the administrative center of Shirak Province in the northwestern part of the country. By the end of the 19th century, when the city w ...

Armenian SSR The Armenian Soviet Socialist Republic,; russian: Армянская Советская Социалистическая Республика, translit=Armyanskaya Sovetskaya Sotsialisticheskaya Respublika) also commonly referred to as Soviet A ...

), also known as Hovhannes Barsegian or Oganes Barsegyan, is an

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 ...

n retired

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 competed at the

1996 Summer Olympics The 1996 Summer Olympics (officially the Games of the XXVI Olympiad, also known as Atlanta 1996 and commonly referred to as the Centennial Olympic Games) were an international multi-sport event held from July 19 to August 4, 1996, in Atlanta, ...

in the men's 76 kg division. Barseghyan also won a bronze medal at the 1995 European Weightlifting Championships.

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* * * * 1970 births Living people Sportspeople from Gyumri Armenian male weightlifters Olympic weightlifters of Armenia Weightlifters at the 1996 Summer Olympics European Weightlifting Championships medalists {{Armenia-weightlifting-bio-stub