Hakob Mkrtchyan
Armenian weightlifter (born 1997)
Hakob Mkrtchyan (Armenian: Հակոբ Մկրտչյան; born 8 March 1997) is an Armenian male weightlifter, World Champion and European Champion competing in the 77 kg and 85 kg categories until 2018 and 89 kg starting in 2018 after the International Weightlifting Federation reorganized the categories.[1]
Career
He won the 77 kg class at the 2014 Summer Youth Olympics,[2] and in doing so became the first Armenian to win a gold medal at the Summer Youth Olympics.[3]
In 2018 he competed at the 2018 World Weightlifting Championships[4][5] winning a silver medal in the clean & jerk.[6]
Major results
| Year | Venue | Weight | Snatch (kg) | Clean & Jerk (kg) | Total | Rank | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2 | 3 | Rank | 1 | 2 | 3 | Rank | |||||
| World Championships | ||||||||||||
| 2014 |  Almaty, Kazakhstan | 77 kg | 135 | 140 | 30 | 170 | 175 | 180 | 18 | 320 | 20 | |
| 2018 |  Ashgabat, Turkmenistan | 89 kg | 160 | 14 | 205 |  | 365 | 7 | ||||
| 2019 |  Pattaya, Thailand | 89 kg | 163 | 167 | 4 | 204 | 208 | — | | 375 |  | |
| European Championships | ||||||||||||
| 2019 |  Batumi, Georgia | 89 kg | 160 | 164 | 4 | 201 | 207 | — | | 371 | | |
References
- ^ PDF listing of 2018 Group A world championship entrants in 89 kg
- ^ Olympic.org. "2014 Youth Olympics 77 kg results". Retrieved 20 November 2018.
- ^ "Nanjing 2014: Hakob Mkrtchyan wins Armenia's first gold". News.am. Retrieved 20 February 2019.
- ^ IWF.net. "IWF Results". Retrieved 20 November 2018.
- ^ IWF.net. "2018 World Weightlifting Championships Results". Retrieved 20 November 2018.
- ^ "Seven Medallist in the Men's 89kg". IWF.net. 6 November 2018. Retrieved 20 February 2019.
External links
- Hakob Mkrtchyan at the International Weightlifting Federation
- v
- t
- e
World Champions in Weightlifting – Men's Light heavyweight
- 1920:
Josef Straßberger (GER) - 1922:
Roger François (FRA) - 1923:
Jaroslav Skobla (TCH) - 1937:
Fritz Haller (AUT) - 1938:
John Davis (USA) - 1946:
Grigory Novak (URS) - 1947: John Terpak (USA)
- 1949: Stanley Stanczyk (USA)
- 1950: Stanley Stanczyk (USA)
- 1951: Stanley Stanczyk (USA)
- 1953: Arkady Vorobyov (URS)
- 1954: Tommy Kono (USA)
- 1955: Tommy Kono (USA)
- 1957:
Trofim Lomakin (URS) - 1958: Trofim Lomakin (URS)
- 1959: Rudolf Plyukfelder (URS)
- 1961: Rudolf Plyukfelder (URS)
- 1962:
Győző Veres (HUN) - 1963: Győző Veres (HUN)
- 1964: Rudolf Plyukfelder (URS)
- 1965:
Norbert Ozimek (POL) - 1966: Vladimir Belyaev (URS)
- 1968: Boris Selitsky (URS)
- 1969:
Masushi Ouchi (JPN) - 1970: Gennady Ivanchenko (URS)
- 1971: Boris Pavlov (URS)
- 1972:
Leif Jenssen (NOR) - 1973: Vladimir Ryzhenkov (URS)
- 1974:
Trendafil Stoychev (BUL) - 1975: Valery Shary (URS)
- 1976: Valery Shary (URS)
- 1977: Gennady Bessonov (URS)
- 1978: Yurik Vardanyan (URS)
- 1979: Yurik Vardanyan (URS)
- 1980: Yurik Vardanyan (URS)
- 1981: Yurik Vardanyan (URS)
- 1982: Asen Zlatev (BUL)
- 1983: Yurik Vardanyan (URS)
- 1984:
Petre Becheru (ROU) - 1985: Yurik Vardanyan (URS)
- 1986: Asen Zlatev (BUL)
- 1987: László Barsi (HUN)
- 1989: Kiril Kounev (BUL)
- 1990: Altymyrat Orazdurdyýew (URS)
- 1991: Ibragim Samadov (URS)
- 1993:
Pyrros Dimas (GRE) - 1994:
Marc Huster (GER) - 1995: Pyrros Dimas (GRE)
- 1997: Andrzej Cofalik (POL)
- 1998: Pyrros Dimas (GRE)
- 1999:
Shahin Nassirinia (IRI) - 2001:
Giorgi Asanidze (GEO) - 2002:
Zlatan Vanev (BUL) - 2003:
Valeriu Calancea (ROU) - 2005:
Ilya Ilyin (KAZ) - 2006:
Andrei Rybakou (BLR) - 2007: Andrei Rybakou (BLR)
- 2009:
Lu Yong (CHN) - 2010: Adrian Zieliński (POL)
- 2011: Kianoush Rostami (IRI)
- 2013:
Apti Aukhadov (RUS) - 2014: Kianoush Rostami (IRI)
- 2015: Artem Okulov (RUS)
- 2017:
Arley Méndez (CHI) - 2018: Artem Okulov (RUS)
- 2019:
Hakob Mkrtchyan (ARM) - 2021:
Yu Dong-ju (KOR) - 2022:
Keydomar Vallenilla (VEN) - 2023: Mirmostafa Javadi (IRI)
- 82.5 kg (1920–1991)
- 83 kg (1993–1997)
- 85 kg (1998–2017)
- 89 kg (2018–)
