Ruben Aleksanyan ( hy, Ռուբեն Ալեքսանյան; born 14 March 1990) is an Armenian weightlifter. He won a gold medal at the 2009 U23 European Championships in

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, Poland, and a silver medal at the 2010 European Championships in

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, Belarus. 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

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), which was a European Under-20 record, in losing to Evgeny Chigishev. He competed at the

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in the Men's +105 kg.

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* * Armenian male weightlifters Living people 1990 births Olympic weightlifters for Armenia Weightlifters at the 2016 Summer Olympics World Weightlifting Championships medalists Sportspeople from Yerevan European Weightlifting Championships medalists {{Armenia-weightlifting-bio-stub