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Smbat Margaryan scored a small bronze medal
The Armenian men's weightlifting team scored only one medal on the first day of the 2011 European Weightlifting Championship that kicked off in Kazan.
Smbat Margaryan (56 kg weight category) lifted 140 kg and scored a small bronze medal. Moldovan Oleg Sirj became Europe's champion after lifting 262 kg.
Today only Elen Grigoryan will enter the arena and will perform in the 53 kg weight category.
Among Armenia's other representatives are Vanik Avetisyan (69 kg weight category), Samvel Grigoryan (69 kg), Arayik Mirzoyan (77 kg) Aghasi Aghasyan (77 kg), Edgar Gevorgyan (85 kg), Gevorik Poghosyan (94 kg), Artur Babayan (105 kg) and Hripsime Khurshudyan (+75 kg).