Meline Daluzyan received the Honoured Master of Sports of Armenia title in 2006.
11 Facts About Meline Daluzyan
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Meline Daluzyan's parents opposed his passion at first but later became proud of their son's achievements.
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In 2005 and 2006, Meline Daluzyan won the Junior European Championship twice.
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Meline Daluzyan won a bronze medal at the 2006 World Weightlifting Championships.
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Meline Daluzyan became the first weightlifter from Armenia to win a World medal in the female category.
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The next year, Meline Daluzyan won a gold medal at the 2007 European Weightlifting Championships and became the first Armenian individual to become a European Champion in weightlifting.
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Meline Daluzyan repeated this success at the 2008 European Weightlifting Championships, becoming a two-time European Champion.
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Meline Daluzyan was set to compete at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, but he suffered an acute attack of pancreatitis two weeks before the Olympics and was forced to withdraw from the competition.
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In 2010, Meline Daluzyan won a silver medal at the 2010 European Weightlifting Championships and a bronze medal at the 2010 World Weightlifting Championships.
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Meline Daluzyan finally made his Olympic debut at the 2012 Summer Olympics but was unable to set a total.
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In May 2019, following reanalysis of his samples from the 2012 Olympics, which tested positive for dehydrochlormethyltestosterone metabolites and stanozolol metabolites, Meline Daluzyan was disqualified from the Olympic Games.