Rafael Chimishkyan
Rafael Arkadu Tschimischkjan (Armenian Ռաֆայել Արկադու Չիմիշքյան, in scientific transliteration Rafayel Arkadow Č'imišk'yan; born August 20, 1929 in Tbilisi, Georgian SSR) is a former Soviet weightlifter. Since he took over as international representatives of the Soviet Union, he is best known under the Russified form of his name Rafael Arkadyevitch Tschimischkjan (Russian Рафаэль Аркадьевич Чимишкян ).
Career
Rafael Tschimischkjan came alive as the son of Armenian parents in Georgia, as a teenager with weight lifting in touch. At the sports club Dynamo Tbilisi he came in good coaches hands and made rapid progress. Already the age of twenty he was allowed to start for the USSR at the World Championships in Paris in 1950. He justified the confidence placed in him by winning the vice-champion title. He was the first weightlifters of the Soviet Union, who came from the south of the country at a World Cup won a medal. Later, should follow from this region many great athletes Rafael Tschimischkian. Until 1960 he remained in the best in the world when it hard rivals were also in their own country in Saksonow Nikolai, Ivan Udodow and Yevgeny Minayev very grown up, against which he could not always prevail.
A trained mechanic came at the beginning of his sporting career in the Red Army and brought it there to the officer.
International success
(OS = Olympic Games, WM = World Championship, European Championship EM =, Ba = bantamweight, featherweight = Fe )
USSR Championships
World Records
(all obtained at featherweight )
In beidarmigen tearing:
In beidarmigen Launched:
In Olympic triathlon:
- 337.5 kg, 1952 in Helsinki,
- 340 kg, 1953 in Odessa,
- 342.5 kg, 1954 in Alexandria,
- 345 kg, 1954 in Petrozavodsk,
- 350 kg, 1954 in Vienna.