Varazdat Lalayan Became A 3x European Champion.

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AI GeneratedThe video captures the high-stakes performance of super heavyweight weightlifter Varazdat Lalayan representing Team Armenia. The commentary focuses on his strategic opening lifts in the snatch and clean and jerk, highlighting his status as one of the greatest snatchers in history and his pursuit of European titles and records.
He does not intend to do so today.
This is equal to his lightest ever opener.
All of his lightest openers come from the European Championships.
This is the fourth time he's opened with 200 kilos.
His heaviest ever is 210.
This 200 looks like he is capable now to double it.
Yeah, definitely.
I mean, he is one of the greatest super heavyweights.
Certainly one of the greatest snatchers of all time.
He's made 215 kilos.
Guys, over the last 10 years, we've become accustomed to 210 kilo snatches.
But throughout history, this was not an annual occurrence.
This is not something that anyone ever really got used to seeing.
We've been spoiled by an incredibly strong super heavyweight category this last decade.
And the jury gave him one red, so he's okay.
He's gonna get the lift. I'd love to see it again from the front.
Look at his right arm.
Oh yeah, oh yeah.
There's a little movement, I think.
He is lucky that...
To some degree, I think the crowd just...
241 kilos on the bar for the opening attempt of
one and the only Varazdatlalayan
representing team Armenia.
Be clean for him.
And jerk. And there's your...
We'll see another.
I think it will be 251 kilos for a European cleaner jerk record attempt.
After which, I imagine he will then
apply the third attempt.
But we'll see.
Matching his all-time international personal best.
It's a massive lift.
Let's go team Armenia.
Straight into the jerk, though, which I did not expect.
He normally rests for longer.
I think that's gonna be it.
Will he come back out?
We'll have to wait and see.
He's not waved to the crowd, which you would think he would do
if he was finishing off.
But I just can't imagine he's going to...
It looks pretty well in the clean.
Just he lost the control in...
Screaming everybody, giving all energy.
Looking for his third European title
and his first European records
in the cleaner jerk in total.
This to match his all-time personal best.
10 seconds.
And you know what?
It's not long enough to rest for that kind of weight.
I've seen supers take slower doubles than that.
