Sergo Iskanderovich Ambarzumjan

Sergo Iskanderowitsch Ambarzumjan ( Armenian Սերգո Համբարձումյան Sergo Hambardsumjan, Russian Серго Искандерович Амбарцумян ; * 1910 in Bist, Ordubad Nakhichevan Rayon ; † April 13, 1983 in Moscow ) was a Soviet weightlifter of Armenian descent.

Career

The first Soviet heavyweight weightlifter who showed comparable performance to the weightlifters from the middle class was Sergo Ambarzumjan, an Armenian. A direct comparison with the athletes of the bourgeois states was not possible in the 1930s, since the sport was then divided into the bourgeois and the workers sport. Also in the Soviet Union, as in the associations of civil sport in the 1930s, the pentathlon, consisting of one-armed tearing and pushing as well as two-armed pushing, tearing and pushing, was practiced. The achievements that Ambarzumjan achieved are shown in the results of the USSR championships and from 1934 onwards are quite comparable to those of bourgeois sport. The victory in the pentathlon in 1934 was impressive, and it was clearly better than the victory of the Czech European champion in 1933, Václav Bečvář .

To compare the achievements of Ambarzumjan, here are the achievements of Bečvář and Paul Wahl , Möhringen, the German champion in 1934:

• Bečvář: 552.5 kg (90 - 82.5 - 102.5 - 117.5 - 160);
• Choice: 545 kg (85 - 102.5 - 105 - 110 - 142.5).

Sergo Ambarzumjan was a bricklayer, later also worked as a car mechanic and chauffeur.

International success

• 1946, 5th place , World Championship in Paris , heavyweight, with 370 (120-110-140) kg, behind John Davis , USA , 435 kg, Jakow Kuzenko , USSR , 415 kg, Mohamed Geissa, Egypt , 395 kg and Petersen, Denmark , 380 kg.

USSR championships

(1933 to 1935 in pentathlon, 1937 and 1940 in Olympic three-way fight)

• 1933, 1st place, S, with 505 kg (77.5 - 92.5 - 100 - 100 - 135);
• 1934, 1st place, S, with 571 kg (91.5 - 102.5 - 111.5 - 119 - 147);
• 1935, 1st place, S, with 560 kg (85 - 100 - 115 - 115 - 145);
• 1937, 3rd place, S, with 370 kg (115 - 110 - 145);
• 1940, 2nd place, S, with 405 kg (120 - 125 - 160).

World record

(unofficial as the USSR was not a member of the International Weightlifting Federation [IMF])

in the two-armed pushing of the heavyweight:

• 1938, 167.5 kg in Yerevan.

Web link

• Brief portrait of Sergo Ambarzumjan