Gor Minasyan
![]() Gor Minasyan at Rio 2016 | |
Personal information | |
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Nationality | Armenian |
Born | Gyumri, Armenia | 25 October 1994
Height | 1.80 m (5 ft 11 in) |
Weight | 150.80 kg (332 lb) |
Sport | |
Country | Armenia |
Sport | Weightlifting |
Event | +109 kg |
Achievements and titles | |
Personal bests |
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Gor Minasyan (Armenian: Գոռ Մինասյան; born 25 October 1994) is an Armenian weightlifter, and Olympic silver medalist (2016) competing in the super-heavyweight category (105 kg + until 2018 and 109 kg + starting in 2018 after the International Weightlifting Federation reorganized the categories).[1]
Career
He was the youth world record holder for the snatch in the +94 kg division till middle of 2018 when new bodyweight category announced. Minasyan won a silver medal at the 2010 Summer Youth Olympics.[2]
Minasyan was banned for 2 years in 2013 after testing positive for norandrosterone.[3]
He was the bronze medalist at the 2015 World Weightlifting Championships, and the silver medalist at the 2016 European Weightlifting Championships, 2017 European Weightlifting Championships, 2018 World Weightlifting Championships, and the 2016 Summer Olympics[4][5].
Major results
Year | Venue | Weight | Snatch (kg) | Clean & Jerk (kg) | Total | Rank | ||||||
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1 | 2 | 3 | Rank | 1 | 2 | 3 | Rank | |||||
Olympic Games | ||||||||||||
2016 | ![]() |
+105 kg | 200 | 207 | 210 | 3 | 236 | 241 | 5 | 451 | ![]() | |
World Championships | ||||||||||||
2015 | ![]() |
+105 kg | 195 | 201 | 203 | ![]() |
234 | 8 | 437 | ![]() | ||
2018 | ![]() |
+109 kg | 200 | 205 | ![]() |
240 | 245 | ![]() |
450 | ![]() | ||
2019 | ![]() |
+109 kg | 200 | 207 | 212 | ![]() |
237 | 243 | 248 | ![]() |
460 | ![]() |
European Championships | ||||||||||||
2016 | ![]() |
+105 kg | 195 | 200 | 205 | ![]() |
231 | 237 | 4 | 442 | ![]() | |
2017 | ![]() |
+105 kg | 200 | 205 | 211 | ![]() |
235 | 5 | 446 | ![]() | ||
2019 | ![]() |
+109 kg | 200 | ![]() |
222 | – | 7 | 422 | 5 | |||
World Junior Championships | ||||||||||||
2011 | ![]() |
+105 kg | 170 | 175 | 178 | ![]() |
200 | 206 | 5 | 384 | 4 | |
2012 | ![]() |
+105 kg | 180 | 186 | 190 | ![]() |
220 | 227 | ![]() |
417 | ![]() | |
2013 | ![]() |
+105 kg | 177 | 183 | -- | 206 | 213 | 220 | -- | -- | DSQ | |
Youth Olympic Games | ||||||||||||
2010 | ![]() |
+94 kg | 155 | 160 | 1 | 190 | 2 | 350 | ![]() |
References
- ^ PDF listing of 2018 Group A world championship entrants in 109 kg +
- ^ "Samvel Khachatryan: Gor Minasyan has won Armenia's first silver medal of Olympic Games since 1996". PanArmenian.Net. Retrieved 5 December 2012.
- ^ "Sanctioned Athletes / Athlete Support Personnel". iwf.net. International Weightlifting Federation. Retrieved 8 August 2016.
- ^ "Lasha Talakhadze Wins Gold, Behdad Salimi Bombs Out After World Record Snatch". BarBend.com. 16 August 2016. Retrieved 17 August 2016.
- ^ "MINASYAN Gor". Rio 2016. Archived from the original on 15 August 2016. Retrieved 17 August 2016.
External links
- 1994 births
- Living people
- Armenian sportspeople in doping cases
- Armenian male weightlifters
- Doping cases in weightlifting
- Weightlifters at the 2010 Summer Youth Olympics
- Weightlifters at the 2016 Summer Olympics
- World Weightlifting Championships medalists
- Olympic weightlifters of Armenia
- Medalists at the 2016 Summer Olympics
- Olympic silver medalists for Armenia
- Olympic medalists in weightlifting
- Universiade medalists in weightlifting
- Sportspeople from Gyumri
- Universiade gold medalists for Armenia
- European Weightlifting Championships medalists
- European weightlifting biography stubs
- Armenian sportspeople stubs