Hakob Mkrtchyan
Personal information
NicknameGomp
NationalityArmenian
Born (1997-03-08) 8 March 1997
Weight88.75 kg (196 lb)
Sport
CountryArmenia
SportWeightlifting
Event–89 kg
Achievements and titles
Personal bests
  • Snatch: 167 kg (2019)
  • Clean & jerk: 208 kg (2019)
  • Total: 375 kg (2019)
Medal record
World Championships
Gold medal – first place2019 Pattaya–89 kg
European Championships
Gold medal – first place2019 Batumi–89 kg
Bronze medal – third place2021 Moscow–96 kg
Youth Olympic Games
Gold medal – first place2014 Nanjing–77 kg

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
2014Kazakhstan Almaty, Kazakhstan77 kg135140140301701751801832020
2018Turkmenistan Ashgabat, Turkmenistan89 kg160160168142052132132nd place, silver medalist(s)3657
2019Thailand Pattaya, Thailand89 kg1631671704204208—2nd place, silver medalist(s)3751st place, gold medalist(s)
European Championships
2019Georgia (country) Batumi, Georgia89 kg1601641664201207—1st place, gold medalist(s)3711st place, gold medalist(s)

References

  1. ↑ PDF listing of 2018 Group A world championship entrants in 89 kg
  2. ↑ Olympic.org. "2014 Youth Olympics 77 kg results". Retrieved 20 November 2018.
  3. ↑ "Nanjing 2014: Hakob Mkrtchyan wins Armenia's first gold". News.am. Retrieved 20 February 2019.
  4. ↑ IWF.net. "IWF Results". Retrieved 20 November 2018.
  5. ↑ IWF.net. "2018 World Weightlifting Championships Results". Retrieved 20 November 2018.
  6. ↑ "Seven Medallist in the Men's 89kg". IWF.net. 6 November 2018. Retrieved 20 February 2019.
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