Aleksander Karapetyan

Aleksander Karapetyan
Personal information
Full name Aleksan Karapetyan
Born (1970-08-18) 18 August 1970
Weight 93.49 kg (206.1 lb)
Sport
Country  Armenia
 Australia
Sport Weightlifting
Weight class 94 kg
Team National team
Updated on 13 September 2016.

Aleksandr "Alex" Karapetyan (born 17 August 1970[1][2] in Gyumri, Armenia) is an Armenian weightlifter who later represented Australia.

Karapetyan won a silver medal at the 1995 World Weightlifting Championships for his home country Armenia. He competed at the 1996 Summer Olympics representing Armenia, coming in 13th place, and at the 2000 Summer Olympics representing Australia, coming in 10th place. In 2007 Karapetyan was suspended for two years after he admitted benzylpiperazine doping.[3]

Major results

He competed at world championships, most recently at the 2003 World Weightlifting Championships.[2]

Year Venue Weight Snatch (kg) Clean & Jerk (kg) Total Rank
123Rank123Rank
World Championships
2003 Canada Vancouver, Canada 94 kg 170170170---------------0---
2002 Poland Warsaw, Poland 94 kg 1751801804207.5212.5212.55382.54
2001 Turkey Antalya, Turkey 94 kg 177.5182.51853rd, bronze medalist(s)2102102107392.55

References

  1. "Alex Karapetyan". Sports-Reference.com. Retrieved 27 October 2012.
  2. 1 2 "2003 Weightlifting World Championships - Aleksan Karapetyan". iwf.net. Retrieved 23 June 2016.
  3. "Australian weightlifter banned for doping". 23 April 2007.


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