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Armenia: 3 Medals and Counting
(A.W.)—As of Aug. 12, Armenian athletes have secured three
bronze medals at the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games. 2008
European champion Tigran Gevorg Martirosian, 20, won the
Weightlifting bronze in the men’s 62-69 kg. category, while
2006 European champion Roman Amoian, 24, secured the
Greco-Roman Wrestling bronze in the men’s under-55 kg.
category. 2007 European champion Gevorg Davtian, 25, secured
a third bronze medal in weightlifting.
In an article titled “Speaking of India, Armenia and those
Herculean Australians,” which appeared in the Aug. 12 issue
of the Los Angeles Times (before Armenia had won the third
medal), Chuck Culpepper noted that Armenia had two medals
among merely 2,968,586 citizens, or one for every 1,484,293
Armenians, making it the country with the most medals per
capita.
See pages 8-9 for more details on the Armenian Olympians.
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