Nationality: | Armenian |
Family Status: | Married, one daughter |
Birth Date: | 1990 3, df=yes |
Birth Place: | Yerevan, Armenia |
Height: | 1.80 m |
Weight: | 153.85 kg |
Country: | Armenia |
Sport: | Weightlifting |
Event: | +109 kg |
Ruben Aleksanyan (Armenian: Ռուբեն Ալեքսանյան; born 14 March 1990) is an Armenian weightlifter.[1] He won a gold medal at the 2009 U23 European Championships in Władysławowo, Poland,[2] and a silver medal at the 2010 European Championships in Minsk, Belarus.[3] He was still under twenty years of age when he lifted a combined total of 432 kg (195 kg in the snatch and 237 kg in the clean and jerk),[3] which was a European Under-20 record, in losing to Evgeny Chigishev. He competed at the 2016 Summer Olympics in the Men's +105 kg.[4]