Arsen Melikyan
Arsen Melikyan is an Armenian weightlifter.
Melikyan won an Olympic bronze medal at the 2000 Summer Olympics by snatching 167.5kg with a 197.5kg clean and jerk. He became the first Olympian from the independent Republic of Armenia to win an Olympic bronze medal for weightlifting, a first for the country. Melikyan later won a bronze medal at the 2005 European Weightlifting Championships.