Country Armenia Role Weightlifter Sport Weightlifting Height 1.60 m | Event(s) 69 kg Weight 69 kg Name Meline Daluzyan | |
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Born April 20, 1988 (age 36) ( 1988-04-20 ) | ||
Meline Daluzyan (Armenian: Մելինե Դալուզյան, born 20 April 1988 in Leninakan, Armenian SSR) is an Armenian weightlifter. She received the Honoured Master of Sports of Armenia title in 2006.
Biography
Meline Daluzyan started weight training in 2002 under the leadership of Artashes Nersisyan. Her parents opposed her passion at first, but later became proud of their daughter's achievements. She became an Armenian Champion seven times. In 2005 and 2006, Daluzyan won the Junior European Championship twice.
Daluzyan won a bronze medal at the 2006 World Weightlifting Championships. She became the first female weightlifter from Armenia to win a World medal. The next year, Daluzyan won a gold medal at the 2007 European Weightlifting Championships and became the first Armenian women to become a European Champion in weightlifting. She repeated this success at the 2008 European Weightlifting Championships, becoming a two-time European Champion. Daluzyan was set to compete at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, but she suffered an acute attack of pancreatitis two weeks before the Olympics and was forced to withdraw from the competition. She was substituted with Hripsime Khurshudyan.
In 2010, Daluzyan won a silver medal at the 2010 European Weightlifting Championships and a bronze medal at the 2010 World Weightlifting Championships. She finally made her Olympic debut at the 2012 Summer Olympics but was unable to set a total.