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.