Arsen Melikyan

Arsen Melikyan

Arsen Melikyan (Armenian: Արսեն Մելիքյան, born 17 May 1976) is an Armenian weightlifter. Melikyan won an Olympic bronze medal at the 2000 Summer Olympics by snatching 365 kg. He became the first Olympian from the independent Republic of Armenia to win an Olympic bronze medal for weightlifting, a first for the country. Melikyan later won a bronze medal at the 2005 European Weightlifting Championships. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in 16 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 15 in 2024). Arsen Melikyan is the 4,419th most popular athlete (down from 4,277th in 2024). (up from 5,122nd in 2019)