Davit Hovhannisyan - European weightlifting champion

Armenian weightlifter Davit Hovhannisyan (96 kg) clinched the gold in the European Weightlifting Championships in Yerevan with a total result of 377 kg.

The weightlifter was the strongest in both snatch and clean & jerk events, winning two small gold medals with 172 and 205 kg respectively.

Ara Aghanyan won the silver medal with the total result of 166 kg. The weightlifter won a small bronze medal in the snatch with a result of 165 kg and a small silver medal in the clean & jerk with 199 kg.

Italy's Giuseppe Fico finished the top three in this weight category with a total result of 363 kg.