YEREVAN (Combined Sources), March 5–World Boxing Council/WBA super flyweight champion Vic Darchinyan (33-2-1, 27 KO’s) will be fighting contender Rodrigo Guerrero (13-1-1, 9 KO’s) on March 6, at the Agua Caliente Casino, in Rancho Mirage, California.
“This is a good fight for me and a fight where I will showcase all my skills – not just [...]
YEREVAN (Novosti-Armenia), February 25—The Armenian GM Levon Aronyan took third place in the chess super-tournament in Linares (Spain) that ended on Thursday, reports the official website of the tournament.
In the last 10th round Aronyan, playing with the white pieces, defeated Vugar Gashimov (Azerbaijan) and had his first victory in the tournament. The other nine games [...]
YEREVAN (Novosti-Armenia), February 19—Armenian chessmaster Levon Aronyan has taken second place in the Chess Super-Tournament in Linares, Spain, the official site of the tournament informs.
Aronyan called a draw with Boris Gelfand (Israel) in the fifth round of the Linares tournament. All five games played by Aronyan on this tournament ended in draws.
In the other games [...]
YEREVAN (Novosti-Armenia), February 17—Armenian chess master Levon Aronyan claimed a draw with Vugar Gashimov (Azerbaijan) in the fourth round of the chess super-tournament in Linares, Spain. Aronyan was playing black chess pieces, the official site of the tournament informs.
It’s interesting that Aronyan played a draw in all his four games of the tournament.
During the [...]
YEREVAN (Tert.am), February 15—The winning team from the recent Greco-Roman World Cup wrestling championship was from Iran. The championship, which took place February 13-14 at the Karen Demirchyan Sport and Concert Complex in Yerevan, saw Iran beat Turkey, 4-3.
Armenia’s Greco-Roman wrestling team, beating Russia’s team (4-3), took home a bronze medal for the second year [...]
YEREVAN (Tert.am), February 10—Maccabi Tel Aviv FC won the match with Maccabi Netanya FC (3-1) in the 1/16 final round of the Israel State Cup football championship. This paved the way for Maccabi Tel Aviv to advance to the 1/8 final round.
Russian-born Armenian national team striker Yeghia Yavruyan, who holds Israeli citizenship and plays for [...]
YEREVAN (Novosti-Armenia), February 4–The final list of participants of the Armenian delegation to the Winter Olympic Games in Vancouver (12th of February 12-March 1) has been confirmed, the press service of the Armenian Ministry of Sports and Youth Affairs informed.
Skiers Sergey Mikaelyan (Ashotsk, Cross-Country Skiing, Men’s 15 km), Christina Khachatryan (Gyumri,Cross-Country Skiing, Ladies’ 10 km.), Ani-Matilda [...]
YEREVAN (Tert.am), February 3–Yerevan’s football team Ararat will be trained by the former player of Armenia’s national team Tigran Yesayan, who will present himself to the football club today, though his contract officially begins on February 1.
Assisting Yesayan will be former head coach Albert Safaryan and former senior Ararat player Tigran Gsbeyan. Training the goalkeepers, [...]
YEREVAN (Novosti Armenia), January 29 –Avetik Grigoryan became the winner of the 70th Chess Championship of Armenia, and Anahit Haratyan became the winners of 65th Chess championship among women, according to the official site of the Chess Federation of Armenia.
The winner among the men was defined in advance, and Grigoryan was already celebrating his victory [...]
YEREVAN (Tert.am), January 27–David Fahradyan, a gymnastics instructor in the V. Brusov Physical Training and Emergencies Department at Yerevan State Linguistic University (YSLU), has been registered in the Guinness Book of World Records.
An application for getting the certificate for the most consecutive gymnastic high bar giants (350) was sent to the main office of Guinness Records [...]