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Aleksander Karapetyan
Medal record
Men's Weightlifting
Representing  Armenia
World Championships
Silver medal – second place 1995 Guangzhou -91 kg
European Championships
Bronze medal – third place 1995 Warsaw -91 kg
Representing  Australia
Commonwealth Games
Gold medal – first place 2002 Manchester -94 kg
Gold medal – first place 2006 Melbourne -94 kg

Aleksander Karapetyan (born August 17, 1970 in Gyumri, Armenia) is an Armenian weightlifter who later represented Australia.[1]

Karapetyan won a silver medal at the 1995 World Weightlifting Championships for his home country Armenia. He competed at the 1996 Summer Olympics representing Armenia, coming in 13th place, and at the 2000 Summer Olympics representing Australia, coming in 10th place. In 2007 Karapetyan was suspended for two years after he admitted benzylpiperazine doping.[2]

References

  1. ^ "Alex Karapetyan". Sports-Reference.com. Retrieved 27 October 2012.
  2. ^ Australian weightlifter banned for doping abc.net.au 23 April 2007

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