Gor Minasyan wins Asian Championships, sets continental records

PanARMENIAN.Net - Armenian lifter Gor Minasyan, who currently represents Bahrain, earned the biggest win of his career on the final day of the Asian Weightlifting Championships in Manama and claimed a second victory for host nation Bahrain, Inside the Games reports.

The move from one continent to another paid off immediately for Minasyan, 27, who switched nationality in July from Armenia to Bahrain. It took Minasyan only five minutes to make his mark in his new continent by setting an Asian snatch record with his second lift of 205 kilograms.

He bettered that with 210kg and built a lead of 15kg over his Iranian rival Ali Davoudi, 23, by the halfway stage.

Davoudi edged the clean and jerk on 243kg and failed with a 250kg attempt at the Asian record.

There was yet another record for Minasyan, on total, as he finished 210-242-452 while Davoudi managed 195-243-438.

Minasyan was second at Rio 2016 and Davoudi took the runner-up spot in Tokyo last year, when Minasyan was an absentee because Armenia lost quota places for past doping offences.