Aleksander Karapetyan
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| Full name | Aleksan Karapetyan | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Born | 18 August 1970 Gyumri, Armenian SSR, Soviet Union | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Weight | 93.49 kg (206.1 lb) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Country |  Armenia Australia | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Sport | Weightlifting | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Weight class | 94 kg | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Team | National team | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Medal record
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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 | ||||||
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| 1 | 2 | 3 | Rank | 1 | 2 | 3 | Rank | |||||
| World Championships | ||||||||||||
| 2003 |  Vancouver, Canada |
94 kg | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | 0 | --- | |||
| 2002 |  Warsaw, Poland |
94 kg | 175 | 4 | 207.5 | 5 | 382.5 | 4 | ||||
| 2001 |  Antalya, Turkey |
94 kg | 177.5 | 182.5 |  |
210 | 7 | 392.5 | 5 | |||
References[]
- ^ "Alex Karapetyan". Sports-Reference.com. Archived from the original on 18 April 2020. Retrieved 27 October 2012.
- ^ a b "2003 Weightlifting World Championships - Aleksan Karapetyan". iwf.net. Retrieved 23 June 2016.
- ^ "Australian weightlifter banned for doping". 23 April 2007.
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