Garnik Cholakyan
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| Nationality |  Armenia | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Born | 21 December 2001 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Country | Armenia | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Sport | Weightlifting | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Event | –61 kg, | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Medal record
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Garnik Cholakyan (born 21 December 2001), is an Armenian weightlifter, and a bronze medalist at the 2025 European Weightlifting Championships.[1]
Biography
[edit]Cholakyan has been competing in international weightlifting competitions since 2019. At the 2019 European Youth Championships, he became the champion in the 49 kg weight category with a total result of 192 kg.
In 2021, at the European Junior Championships, he won the 55 kg weight category with a total of 230 kg. In May 2022, he became the champion at the World Junior Championships in the 55 kg category with a total result of 240 kg. In 2024, he made his debut at the Senior World Championships, where he placed seventh in the 61 kg weight category with a result of 280 kg.
In April 2025, at the 2025 European Weightlifting Championships held in Chișinău, he won the bronze medal in the 61 kg category with a total result of 275 kg. He also earned a small silver medal in the snatch exercise (124 kg).[2][3]
Major results
[edit]| Year | Venue | Weight | Snatch (kg) | Clean & Jerk (kg) | Total | Rank | ||||||
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| 1 | 2 | 3 | Rank | 1 | 2 | 3 | Rank | |||||
| World Championships | ||||||||||||
| 2024 |  Manama, Bahrain |
61 kg | 120 | 125 | 130 |  |
150 | 7 | 280 | 7 | ||
| 2025 |  Førde, Norway |
60 kg | 123 | 8 | 152 | — | 10 | 275 | 10 | |||
| European Championships | ||||||||||||
| 2025 |  Chișinău, Moldova |
61 kg | 124 |  |
151 | 4 | 275 |
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| 2026 |  Batumi, Georgia |
60 kg | 120 | 124 | |
145 | 150 | |
274 |
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References
[edit]- ^ "Garnik Cholakyan - bronze medalist of the European Weightlifting Championships". sportaran.com (in Russian). Retrieved 15 April 2025.
- ^ "2025 European Weightlifting Championships: results of the second day". sportaran.com (in Russian). Retrieved 15 April 2025.
- ^ Vikc, Serg (14 April 2025). "Angel Rusev, Ivan Dimov, and Garance Rigaud are the 2025 European weightlifting champions". Sport-liga News (in Russian). Retrieved 15 April 2025.
External links
[edit]- Garnik Cholakyan at the International Weightlifting Federation
- Garnik Cholakyan at IAT Database Weightlifting (in German)
- Garnik Cholakyan at InterSportStats
