[1] Melikyan won an Olympic bronze medal at the 2000 Summer Olympics by snatching 365 kg.

[2] 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.

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