Sergo Ambartsumyan

Posted on Wednesday, October 29th, 2014 by John Wood

Sergo Ambartsumyan was a great lifter of Armenian descent who was the Russian super-heavyweight champion from 1933 to 1935. In those days, competitive weightlifting consisted of five lifts: press, snatch, one-arm snatch, one-arm clean and jerk, clean and jerk. The above is a rare shot of Ambartsumyan’s winning one-arm snatch at the 1933 Minsk championships.

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