Rafael Chimishkyan
Template:Short description Template:Use dmy dates
Rafael Arkadyevich Chimishkyan (Georgian: Script error: No such module "Lang"., Template:Langx; 23 March 1929 – 25 September 2022)[1][2] was a Georgian weightlifter who competed for the Soviet Union and Olympic, World, European and Soviet Champion. Chimishkyan was awarded the Honoured Master of Sports of the USSR title in 1952. He was an honorary citizen of Tbilisi.
Biography
Chimishkyan was born in Tbilisi, Georgian SSR on 23 March 1929. He started weightlifting in 1946. In his first Soviet Championship in 1949, he won a gold medal at bantamweight (56 kg). In 1950, Chimishkyan won silver at the World Weightlifting Championships and gold at the European Weightlifting Championships and then switched to featherweight (60 kg). He first won a silver at the Soviet Championships that year in this new category. Chimishkyan became a two-time World Champion (1954 and 1955), six-time European Champion (1950, 1952, 1954–57) and five-time USSR Champion (1949, 1951, 1954, 1955, 1960).
Chimishkyan won an Olympic gold medal at the 1952 Summer Olympics in Helsinki. He is the second Soviet weightlifter to become an Olympic Champion.[3] He was the last living Olympic Champion as well as even the last living medalist in Weightlifting from the 1952 Olympics. Chimishkyan set 10 world records during his career: three in the snatch, two in the clean and jerk and five in the total.
References
<templatestyles src="Reflist/styles.css" />
- ↑ Script error: No such module "citation/CS1".
- ↑ Script error: No such module "citation/CS1".
- ↑ "1952 Summer Olympics – Helsinki, Finland – Weightlifting" Template:Webarchive – databaseOlympics.com (Retrieved on 23 February 2008)
Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".
External links
- Rafael Chimishkyan at Lift Up
- Template:Cite Sports-Reference
- databaseOlympics.com
- Template:Sports links
Template:Footer Olympic Champions Weightlifting Featherweight Template:Footer World Champions Weightlifting Men Featherweight Template:Authority control
- Pages with script errors
- 1929 births
- 2022 deaths
- Sportspeople from Tbilisi
- Armenian male weightlifters
- 20th-century people from Georgia (country)
- Soviet male weightlifters
- Male weightlifters from Georgia (country)
- Olympic weightlifters for the Soviet Union
- Olympic gold medalists for the Soviet Union
- Olympic medalists in weightlifting
- Medalists at the 1952 Summer Olympics
- Weightlifters at the 1952 Summer Olympics
- Soviet Armenians
- Georgian people of Armenian descent
- Honoured Masters of Sport of the USSR
- European Weightlifting Championships medalists
- World Weightlifting Championships medalists
- Ethnic Armenian sportspeople