Kyapanaktsyan was born in Leninakan, Armenian SSR (now Gyumri, Armenia), a city known for producing elite weightlifters.

[1] He won a gold medal at the 1993 European Weightlifting Championships and competed at the 1996 Summer Olympics.

Kyapanaktsyan also set two world records, both in the snatch.

[2] On September 30, 2007, Kyapanaktsyan died at the age of 39 in a car accident on the Gyumri-Vanadzor highway.

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