Belarusian Mikalai Charnyak becomes European weightlifting champion

22-year-old Belarusian weight-lifter Mikalai Charnyak (below 77 kilos) has become champion of Europe in Bucharest.
Charnyak lifted 344 kilos in the double-event sum. Erkan Kerimai from Albania won a silver medal – 342 kilos and Russian Dmitrii Ivanenko won a bronze medal.

Let us note that it has been the second Belarusian medal at the European championship. A bronze medal winner of the Olympics-2008 Anastasiya Novokava won a gold medal on April 5.

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