Career
He was awarded the Honoured Master of Sports of the Union of the Soviet Socialist Republics title in 1989. Born in Leninakan, Armenian Soviet Socialist Republic (now Gyumri, Armenia), a city famous for its world class weightlifters, Militosyan took up weightlifting in 1980 under the guidance of cousin Vardan Militosyan and joined the Soviet national team in 1987. Militosyan was one of the top weightlifters of his era.
He made his Olympic debut at the 1988 Summer Olympics in Seoul.
Despite the defeat, Militosyan set a new Olympic record in the snatch at 155 kg. At the World Weightlifting Championships in Athens, Militosyan set the world record in the snatch at 158.5 kg and then, in his next lift, broke his own world record at 160 kg.
Though the Soviet Union was disbanded, Militosyan and the other Soviet Olympians still competed together under the Unified Team at the 1992 Summer Olympics in Barcelona. In the snatch, Militosyan lifted 155 kg, breaking his own previous Olympic record (150 kg), and lifted 182.5 kg in the clean and jerk, setting an Olympic total of 337.5 kg yet again and this time winning the Olympic gold medal, defeating silver medalist Yotov by 10 kg.
Following the 1992 Olympics, Militosyan began representing his native Armenia.
Militosyan set the world record in the snatch for a third time in 1994 at the 1994 European Weightlifting Championships in Sokolov. the weight limit change. Militosyan is the first weightlifter from the independent Republic of Armenia to set a world record in weightifting. Militosyan represented Armenia in its Olympic debut at the 1996 Summer Olympics, where he came in sixth place.
Militosyan retired from weightlifting in 1999 and later worked as a weightlifting coach in his hometown of Gyumri.