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Rafael Arkadyevich Chimishkyan (Georgian: რაფაელ ჩიმიშკიანი, Russian: Рафаэль Аркадьевич Чимишкян; 23 March 1929 – 25 September 2022)[1][2] was a weightlifter who competed for the Soviet Union and Olympic, World, European and Soviet Champion. Chimishkyan was awarded the Honoured Master of Sports of the USSR title in 1952. He was an honorary citizen of Tbilisi.

Rafael Chimishkyan

Medal record
Men's Weightlifting
Representing  Soviet Union
Olympic Games
	1952 Helsinki	-60 kg
World Championships
	1950 Paris	-56 kg
	1953 Stockholm	-60 kg
	1954 Vienna	-60 kg
	1955 Munich	-60 kg
European Championships
	1950 Paris	-56 kg
	1952 Helsinki	-60 kg
	1953 Stockholm	-60 kg
	1954 Vienna	-60 kg
	1955 Munich	-60 kg
	1956 Helsinki	-60 kg
	1957 Katowice	-60 kg
USSR Weightlifting Championships
	1949 Voronezh	-56 kg
	1950 Kharkiv	-60 kg
	1951 Kaunas	-60 kg
	1952 Ivanovo	-60 kg
	1953 Tallinn	-60 kg
	1954 Petrozavodsk	-60 kg
	1955 Minsk	-60 kg
	1956 Moscow	-60 kg
	1957 Lviv	-60 kg
	1958 Stalino	-60 kg
	1960 Leningrad	-60 kg
	1962 Tbilisi	-60 kg

Biography

Chimishkyan was born in Tbilisi, Georgian SSR on 23 March 1929. He started weightlifting in 1946. In his first Soviet Championship in 1949, he won a gold medal at bantamweight (56 kg). In 1950, Chimishkyan won silver at the World Weightlifting Championships and gold at the European Weightlifting Championships and then switched to featherweight (60 kg). He first won a silver at the Soviet Championships that year in this new category. Chimishkyan became a two-time World Champion (1954 and 1955), six-time European Champion (1950, 1952, 1954–57) and five-time USSR Champion (1949, 1951, 1954, 1955, 1960).

Chimishkyan won an Olympic gold medal at the 1952 Summer Olympics in Helsinki. He is the second Soviet weightlifter to become an Olympic Champion.[3] He was the last living Olympic Champion as well as even the last living medalist in Weightlifting from the 1952 Olympics. Chimishkyan set 10 world records during his career: three in the snatch, two in the clean and jerk and five in the total.

References

External links

• Rafael Chimishkyan at Lift Up
• Evans, Hilary; Gjerde, Arild; Heijmans, Jeroen; Mallon, Bill; et al. "Rafael Chimishkyan". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Archived from the original on 18 April 2020.
• databaseOlympics.com
• Rafael Chimishkyan at Olympedia

На других языках

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- [en] Rafael Chimishkyan

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[fr] Rafael Chimishkyan

Rafael Arkadyevich Chimishkyan (géorgien : რაფაელ ჩიმიშკიანი, russe : Рафаэль Аркадьевич Чимишкян), né le 23 mars 1929 et mort le 25 septembre 2022[1], est un haltérophile géorgien qui concourait pour l'URSS.

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[it] Rafaėl' Čimiškjan

Rafaėl' Arkad'evič Čimiškjan (in georgiano: რაფაელ არკადიევიჩ ჩიმიშკიანი?, in russo: Рафаэль Аркадьевич Чимишкян?; trasl. angl.: Rafael Chimishkyan; Tbilisi, 23 marzo 1929 – 25 settembre 2022[1]) è stato un sollevatore sovietico di origine georgiana, che ha gareggiato per l'ex Unione Sovietica principalmente nella categoria dei pesi piuma (fino a 60 kg), laureandosi campione olimpico, mondiale ed europeo.

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[ru] Чимишкян, Рафаэль Аркадьевич

Рафаэль Аркадьевич Чимишкян (арм. Ռաֆայել Արկադիի Չմշկյան, груз. რაფაელ ჩიმიშკიანი; 23 марта 1929, Тифлис — 25 сентября 2022[1]) — советский тяжелоатлет, 11-кратный рекордсмен мира, олимпийский чемпион (1952), двукратный чемпион мира (1954 и 1955), шестикратный чемпион Европы (1950, 1952, 1954—1957) и пятикратный чемпион СССР (1949, 1951, 1954, 1955, 1960). Заслуженный мастер спорта СССР (1952). Судья международной категории. Член КПСС с 1957 года. Почётный вице-президент Федерации тяжёлой атлетики Грузии. Удостоен звания «Лучший штангист Грузии XX века». Награждён орденом «Знак Почёта» (1956) и «Орденом Чести» (1996).

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