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| Athens, May 7 /Noyan Tapan/ Free-style Wrestling International Youth Tournament finished in the capital city of Greece, Athens on May 6. There were nine sportsmen from Armenia among delegates from seven countries. Ohan Gikinian (55 kg, Vanadzor), Narek Sanoyan (60 kg), and Gevorg Avsharian (74 kg, both from Yerevan) gained 3 victories each and became the winners of the tournament. 2 members of their team took the 2nd place and 3 the 3rd place. |  Full Story |
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 Yerevan, April 21 /Armenpress/ Another Armenian weightlifter, Tigran Martirosian, 85 kg, has become absolute European champion in his weight category and the fourth Armenian who has won gold medals at the European championship in Italy.
His combined result is 377 kg, 4 kg more than his nearest rival Vasily Polovnikov of Russia and 15 kg more than Georgy Markov of Bulgaria who came in third. | | Full Story |
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| YEREVAN, APRIL 15, ARMENPRESS: Seven Armenian free-style wrestlers will have a chance to win licenses for Olympic Games in China at a tournament that kicks off in Switzerland's Martini on April 18. | | Full Story |
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| Yerevan, April 14 /Armenpress/ Armenian taek-wondo athlete Arman Yeremian, 78 kg, beat all his five rivals at Europe's championship in Rome, Italy to win champion title.
Armenia's head coach is Rahim Salehi from Iran. | | Full Story |
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| Yerevan, April 7 /Armenpress/ Armenian wrestler Yuri Patrikeev, 120 kg, has become the only Armenian wrestler to win the gold medal of European championship in Tampere. Finland.
Roman Amoyan, another Armenian wrestler, 55 kg, won the silver medal. He was close to winning a qualification for the Olympic Games, but failed.
Yuri Patrikeev and Arman Adikian, 66 kg, are two Armenian wrestlers that have won the right to represent Armenia in Beijing games. | | Full Story |
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| Yerevan, March 27, Armenpress: Levon Aronian of Armenia won the Amber Blindfold and Rapid Chess Tournament in France's Nice with one round to spare in the blindfold after settling for two draws with Vladimir Kramnik of Russia Wednesday. | | Full Story |
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| January 25 /Armenpress/ Armenia's under-20 ice hockey team beat Bulgaria 11-2 in the last seventh game at the under-20 World Championships in Belgrade to win the third place of the division.
Armenians celebrated four wins and lost three games. New Zealand's under 20's caused a big upset by beating Serbia 5 - 4 in the last game to win the division three Gold medal. | | Full Story |
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 Yerevan, January 9, Armenpress: Armenia's national weightlifting team has proven that it will be a serious rival at this year's Olympic Games in Beijing, China.
Gevorg Davtian, two-time Europe champion and vice world champion, who was voted as Armenia's best athlete of 2007, told Armenpress that he and his peers will do their best in China to win as many medals as possible. | | Full Story |
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| Yerevan, December 25, /Armenpress/ Armenian athletes have won in the outgoing year 104 medals at different international tournaments.
Sport and youth affairs minister Armen Grigorian told a news conference today thousands of Armenian athletes participated in hundreds of tournaments, including Europe and world championships.
He said the government set up a special commission, chaired by prime minister Serzh Sarkisian, to coordinate preparation of Armenian athletes for 2008 Olympic Games in Beijing, China. | | Full Story |
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 Yerevan, November 26, Armenpress: Top-seeded Armenian Grand Master Levon Aronian scored facile wins in his first two games against a much lower rated opponent, Juan Pablo Hobaico of Argentina as the Chess World Cup got off to an exciting start in Russian Khanty Mansiysk on Sunday.
Levon Aronian is the winner of the 2006 Chess World Cup.
Two other Armenian players, Vladimir Hakobian and Zaven Andreasian, scored 1 point each after playing against Anton Filipov of Uzbekistan and Alexander Onischuk of the USA. | | Full Story |
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| Yerevan, November 16, Armenpress: Armenian boxers will have more chances to win qualification of 2008 Olympic Games in Beijing, China.
Alexander Sarkisian, the executive director of the Armenian Boxing Federation, said Italy and Greece will host early next year two tournaments winners of which will win the right to fight in China. | | Full Story |
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 Yerevan, November 1, /A1+/. Ashot Manukyan, deputy chairman of the Armenian Football Federation (AFF) informed today that Brazilian football player Marcos Pizeli cannot play in the Armenian national football team until 2008.
Marcos is the best attacker of Yerevan "Ararat" team and is playing rather impressively during the current Armenian championship. Marcos is not only "Ararat's" leader, but the main power of the team. | | Full Story |
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| September 26 /Azg/ Armenian chess player Levon Aronian, the youngest grandmaster at the world chess championship in Mexico, registered his second victory over the Russian grandmaster Alexander Grischuk in the 10th round game on September 24, Monday. | | Full Story |
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| Yerevan, September 4/Armenpress/ Levon Julfalakian, chief coach of Armenia's Greco-Roman wrestling team, has unveiled the composition of the team that will travel to Azerbaijani capital Baku on September 15 to take part in the world championship.
They are Roman Amoyan (55kg), Khosrov Melikian (60 kg), Arman Adikian (66 kg), Arsen Julfalakian (74 kg), Denis Fedorov (84 kg), Arman Geghamian (96 kg) and Yuri Patrikian (120 kg). | | Full Story |
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| Yerevan, August 21 /Armenpress/ President of the Armenian National Olympic Committee Gagik Tsarukian and sports and youth affairs minister Armen Grigorian met today with heads of Diaspora Armenian athletic organizations participating in the 4-th Pan-Armenian Games in Yerevan.
Tsarukian said the Games, since their inception in 1999, have been a very good event for young people from Diaspora and Armenia-proper to build close ties. | | Full Story |
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 Yerevan, July 26, Armenpress: IBF middleweight champion Arthur Abraham will make his second mandatory title defense against Khoren Gevor (both are Armenia-born living now in Germany) at the Max Schmeling-Halle in Berlin, Germany on August 18.
Abraham, 23-0 (18), last stopped Sebastien Demers inside three rounds. He is currently shaping up in Zinnowitz, a tiny village near the Baltic Sea.
"After my long break I have to give 100 percent in each and every session to be perfectly prepared for this important fight. | | Full Story |
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 June 26, 2007, ArmeniaLiberty.org, By Emil Danielyan - The Armenian Football Federation (AFF) on Monday expressed regret at the weekend decision by European soccer's governing body, UEFA, to cancel planned matches between the national teams of Armenia and Azerbaijan.
The two teams were due to face each other after being drawn into Group A of the qualifying competition for the 2008 European football championship. Their head-to-head matches, scheduled for this September, were certain to arouse nationalist passions in both South Caucasus states that remain in a state of war over Nagorno-Karabakh. | | Full Story |
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| Yerevan, June 22, Noyan Tapan. Second International Youth Chess Tournament will be held from June 24 to July 3 in Jermuk. Its initiator and organizer is the Armenian Chess Republican Academy. Noyan Tapan correspondent was informed about it by grand master Smbat Lputian, Academy Chairman. | | Full Story |
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| Elista, June 12, Noyan Tapan. Levon Aronian drew the game with Alexei Shirov in the 5th tour of second tournament of pretenders for world chess champion title on June 11 in Elista. The Armenian chess-player is in the lead with the score of 3 to 2. | | Full Story |
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 Yerevan, June 7 /Noyan Tapan/ On June 6, the football national team of Armenia, by the program of the group tournament of the Euro-2008 elimination tour, received the national team of Poland, which is the leader in the group, at the Republican stadium. The Armenian team won with the score of 1:0. At the 65th minute Hamlet Mkhitarian scored a goal. | | Full Story |
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| May 29, Yerevan /Armenpress/ Armenian chess star Levon Aronian played draw his second game against Norway's Magnus Carlsen with the white pieces.
They are playing in Russia's Kalmykia, the venue of a knock-out format that sees 16 players in fray, out of which four will qualify for the prestigious World Championships to be held in Mexico later this year.
In the first round Aronian took a full point form the young Norwegian.
They will play four games more and the winner will meet with either Michael Adams of UK or Alexei Shirov of Spain. | | Full Story |
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| Yerevan, May 21, Noyan Tapan - Eghian Robert. The international boxing tournament finished in Czechia on May 20. | | Full Story |
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| Yerevan, May 7, Armenpress: Judoist Hovhannes Davtian from the second-largest town of Gyumri (60 kg) has become the second Armenian athlete to qualify for 2008 Beijing Olympic Games after four successive wins at Super Cup tournament in Moscow. | | Full Story |
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| April 20 /Azg/. On April 18, in Strasburg, at the Europe Championship of Weight-lifting the representative-team of Armenia had a great success. The first representative Meline Ghaluzian ( 63 kg weight-category) became a champion of Europe lifting 102 kg, 106 kg and 108 kg weight. She gave a present to herself on her birthday. Our second weight lifter Arsen Tamrazian (62 kg weight-category) took the 14th place. Sergey Petrosian, our compatriot, the representative of Russian team, became a champion in 62 kg weight-category. | | Full Story |
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| Yerevan, April 19, Armenpress: The Union of European Football Association, better known under its acronym of UEFA, failed yesterday to decide where the national football teams of Armenia and Azerbaijan should hold their 2008 European Cup qualifying games, saying it will make the final decision when it meets again on June 23. | | Full Story |
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10 April, 2007, A1Plus - Today, quarter semi-final re-matches will be held for the Armenian Football Cup. The meetings are non-competitive though the best Armenian 8 teams are playing: this is due to their official permits for next game.
For instance, what should we expect from "Bentonit" - 'Pyunik' match? The Armenian champion beat his rival 4:0. The same we can assume about "Kilikia"-"Banants" meeting. | | Full Story |
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Dresden, April 6, Noyan Tapan. The 3rd stage meetings of the Europe Chess Individual Championship took place on April 5 in the city of Dresden, Germany.
7 participants, among who Elina Danielian is, got 3 points each in the women's tournament. | | Full Story |
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| Yerevan, March 27, Noyan Tapan. The Armenian national football team has left for Poland. The team will compete with that country's national team on March 28. Trainers Vardan Minasian and Armen Gyulbudaghiants accompanied the team to Poland.
20 football-players will represent Armenia in the match. | | Full Story |
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 March 26, 2007, A1Plus - Armenian GM Gabriel Sargsyan, the winner of the recent international chess tournament, enjoyed one more victory.
He became the winner of chess rapid tournament gaining 7.5 points out of 9. | | Full Story |
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| 20 March, 2007, A1Plus - Levon Aronyan played with Boris Belfand, Israel at the 3rd tour of the World Chess Championship held in Monaco. At first the chess players met according to chess blind rules as a result Aronyan lost the game. The latter was followed by rapid-rule chess tournament and Aronyan was a success. | | Full Story |
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 Los Angeles, Mar. 5, 2007 /Armenpress/ Vic Darchinyan retained his International Boxing Federation flyweight title by stopping game challenger Victor Burgos of Mexico in the 12th round.
The Armenian-born Darchinyan, who is now an Australian citizen, overwhelmed former IBF junior flyweight champion Burgos from the start, using his crushing left hand to dominate the scheduled 12-rounder. | | Full Story |
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| Baku, Feb. 28, 2007 /Armenpress/ The chief coach of Azerbaijani football team said he would not object to his team's playing against Armenia in Euro 2008 qualifier in any country but would prefer Ukraine.
Shahin Deniev, who coaches Azerbaijan's national soccer team, said Ukraine is located almost at the same distance from both his country and Armenia and flying to Ukraine would not make players tired. | | Full Story |
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 Feb. 26, 2007 /PanARMENIAN.Net/ The Azerbaijani Ministry of Youth and Sports offered to hold UEFA EURO 2008 qualifying games between Armenia and Azerbaijan in Austria, Switzerland or Ukraine, said Ragif Abbasov, a Spokesman for the Azerbaijani Ministry of Youth and Sports. He said the proposals have been already sent to the UEFA. "Azerbaijan doesn't agree on holding matches in Baku and Yerevan," he said adding that if the organization suggests other variants Azerbaijan will consider them, reports APA-Sports. | | Full Story |
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| Morelia, Feb. 23, 2007 /Noyan Tapan/ Levon Aronian won Viswanathan Anand (India) on February 22 during the 5th stage of chess super tournament being held in the city of Morelia, Mexico. He got 3 points and shares the 2nd-3rd places with him. Magnus Karlsen (Norway) won Vesselin Topalov (Bulgaria) and heads the tournament table with 3.5 points. | | Full Story |
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| Morelia, Feb. 22, 2007 /Noyan Tapan/ The 4th stage meetings took place on February 21 at the chess super tournament being held with participation of 8 grand masters in the city of Morelia, Mexico. Levon Aronian with blacks played a drawn game with Peter Leko (Hungary). He has 2 points from the 4 possible ones and shares the 3rd-6th places. And Viswanathan Anand (India) heads the tournament table with 3 points. | | Full Story |
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| Yerevan, Feb. 19, 2007 /Noyan Tapan/ Games of regular tour of big international chess tournament Aeroflot Open were held on February 18 in Moscow. Representatives of Armenia Vladimir Hakobian, Artashes Minasian and Gabriel Sargsian are in 5-19th places with a great number of chess-players having 3.5 points each. In group A2, David Petrosian, Arman Pashikian and Avetik Grigorian are in 11-27th places with 5-3.5 points each. Six tours have been played in group B. David Kalashian shares 3-6th places with 4 chess-players having 5 points each. Six tours have been played in group C where Suren Poghosian shares 4-8th places with 5 chess-players having 5 points each. | | Full Story |
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| Moscow, February 16, 2007 /Noyan Tapan/. The 2nd stage meetings of the "Aeroflot Open" international big tournament were held in Moscow on February 15. In the A1 group where 84 participants are involved, 7 chess players got 2 points each. Artashes Minasian is also among them. 24 chess players, including Vladimir Hakobian, got 1.5 points each. | | Full Story |
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Yerevan, February 13, Armenpress: Armenia has been ranked 35 in UEFA Fair Play ranking for 2006/07. Armenia has scored 7,694 points after 33 games.
Sweden leads the UEFA Fair Play ranking for 2006/07, followed by Norway and Denmark. Armenia's neighbors Georgia and Azerbaijan are 48-th and 40-th respectively while Turkey is 38-th. | | Full Story |
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| Yerevan, January 26, Armenpress: Over 100 athletes will be competing for medals of Armenia's Greco-Roman Wrestling championship, which kicked off today. | | Full Story |
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 January 26, 2007, /PanArmenian.Net/ Heads of the Armenian and Azeri Football Federations discussed the possible venue of matches of UEFA EURO 2008 qualifying games. The Azeri delegation was led by President of the Association of Football Federations of Azerbaijan Ramiz Mirzoyev and Secretary General Fuad Asadov. President of the RA Football Federation Ruben Hayrapetyan and Secretary General Armen Minasyan headed the Armenian delegation. However, the sides failed to come to agreement.
Head of the information department at the AFFA Mikail Guliyev informed that the Azeri side has not changed its stance and insists on holding matches in a third country. | | Full Story |
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 Yerevan, January 25, Armenpress: Armenia-born boxer Vic Darchinyan, who turned 31 last Sunday, says the best part of his career is only just beginning. After bringing himself to the attention of boxing fans in the USA with three brutal stoppage wins on the Showtime television network in 2006, the IBF/IBO flyweight world champion is looking for the biggest fights available in 2007.
Evidence that Darchinyan's reputation is rising is that he is listed at six behind number one Manny Pacquiao and ahead of other notable names such as Shane Mosley, Marco Antonio Barrera, Oscar De La Hoya and Ricky Hatton in the latest edition of the highly respected The Ring magazine. | | Full Story |
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 Yerevan, January 18, Armenpress: The Union of European Football Association, better known under its acronym of UEFA will discuss where and when national football teams of Armenia and Azerbaijan will hold their 2008 European Cup qualifying games when it meets in Germany's Dusseldorf on January 25-26. | | Full Story |
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| Yerevan, January 11, Noyan Tapan. Armenian national and youth judo teams will hold their teaching and training gathering on January 12-24 at Yerevan Center of National Teams of Olympic Kinds of Sports. National team's principal coach Gagik Aghamalian has invited 24 and youth team's principal coach Tigran Babayan 10 sportsmen to the gathering. | | Full Story |
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Yerevan, January 10, 2007, Noyan Tapan. A friendly match of the Armenian national football team and the national team of Panama is scheduled for January 14 at the College Stadium in Los Angeles.
Another friendly match is scheduled for January 17 with one of the local teams in the city of Fresno. The Armenian national team is leaving for the US on January 10. | | Full Story |
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 Yerevan, December 22, Armenpress: IBF middleweight champion Arthur Abraham (he was born and grew up in Yerevan) has been voted Germany's boxer of the year while coach Ulli Wegner finished first in the coaching race to cap a successful year for Sauerland Event.
BoxSport magazine had conducted the annual poll among its readers and also consulted a prominent jury.
"King Arthur" gained international fame by beating top-ranked Colombian Edison Miranda despite fighting with a broken jaw for the last eight rounds. | | Full Story |
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December 4, 2006, A1Plus - Midfielder of Ashtarak "Mika" and the Armenian National football team Armen Shahgeldyan has been declared the best football player of Armenia in 2006.
The presidents of "Pyunik", "Mika", "Banants", "Ararat", "Kilikia", "Gandzasar", "Shirak" and "Ulyss", as well as the coaches of the clubs, referees and representatives of Mass Media participated in the poll. | | Full Story |
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| December 1, 2006, A1Plus - Armenian figure skaters Anastasia Grebenkina and Vazgen Azroyan will participate in the European Figure Skating Championship scheduled on January 18 - 28 in Warsaw. | | Full Story |
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