Yurik Sarkisyan
| Olympic medal record | ||
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Representing  Soviet Union
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| Men's Weightlifting | ||
| Olympic Games | ||
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1980 Moscow | -56 kg |
| World Championships | ||
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1982 Ljubljana | -60 kg |
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1983 Moscow | -60 kg |
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1980 Moscow | -56 kg |
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1985 Södertälje | -60 kg |
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1987 Ostrava | -60 kg |
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1991 Donaueschingen | -60 kg |
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1981 Lille | -60 kg |
| European Championships | ||
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1982 Liubliana | -60 kg |
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1983 Moscow | -60 kg |
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1980 Belgrade | -60 kg |
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1981 Lille | -60 kg |
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1984 Vitoria | -60 kg |
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1985 Katowice | -60 kg |
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1986 Karl-Marx-Stadt | -60 kg |
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1991 Władysławowo | -60 kg |
| USSR Weightlifting Championships | ||
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1983 Moscow | -60 kg |
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1984 Minsk | -60 kg |
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1987 Arkhangelsk | -60 kg |
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1982 Dnepropetrovsk | -60 kg |
| Summer Spartakiad of the USSR | ||
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1983 Moscow | -60 kg |
| Cups of the USSR | ||
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1979 Frunze | -56 kg Clean and Jerk |
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1979 Frunze | -56 kg Total |
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1980 Alma Ata | -60 kg Snatch |
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1980 Alma Ata | -60 kg Total |
Representing  Armenia
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| World Championships | ||
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1993 Melbourne | -60 kg |
Representing  Australia
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| Commonwealth Games | ||
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2002 Manchester | -62 kg |
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1998 Kuala Lumpur | -62 kg |
Yurik Sarkisyan (Armenian: Յուրի [Յուրիկ] Սարգսյան, born August 14, 1961 in Samaghar, Armenian SSR) is a former Soviet Armenian weightlifter. He was awarded the Honoured Master of Sports of the USSR title in 1982. In 2007, Yurik Sarkisyan included into the International Weightlifting Federation Hall of Fame weightlifting.
Yurik Sarkisyan was born in the village of Samagar, Armenian SSR in the Echmiadzin region. He began weight training at the age of 13. In 1980, Sarkisyan was brought into the USSR national weightlifting team. He became a Weightlifting World Champion among juniors the following year.
He trained at VSS Sevan in Echmiadzin.
At the age of 18, Sarkisyan competed at the 1980 Summer Olympics, the same year he joined the Soviet national team. He came in second place in the bantamweight (56 kg) division and won an Olympic silver medal. Following the Olympic Games, Sarkisyan moved up to the featherweight (60 kg) division, where he would compete at for the rest of his career.
In 1982, Sarkisyan cemented his place as the best featherweight weightlifter in the world by winning gold medals at both the 1982 European Weightlifting Championships and 1982 World Weightlifting Championships. Sarkisyan repeated the accomplishment to following year at the 1983 European Weightlifting Championships and 1983 World Weightlifting Championships, making him a consecutive two-time European and World Champion. He had also set several world records at this point. He was a clear gold medal favorite for the 1984 Summer Olympics, but was unable to participate at them because of the 1984 Summer Olympics boycott.
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