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 [...]
YEREVAN (ArmeniaNow.com)–Armenian women’s basketball team Hatis lost in Orenburg, Russia on January 14 to the local team, Nadezhda 80-65 in the second-leg game as part of the Women’s Euro League finals and thus dropped out of further competition.
The first game between the two teams in Yerevan on January 7 also ended to the Russians’ favor: [...]
YEREVAN (Tert.am) – Armenia’s national team celebrated a victory against the US team at the World Team Chess Championship, who until yesterday had been in the lead thanks to their star player, Hikaru Nakamura.
In the first board Nakamura gained 5.5 points out of a possible 6. It was this chess grandmaster that Armenia’s Levon Aronian defeated [...]
YEREVAN (Tert.am)–In the 7th round of the World Team Chess Championship held in the Turkish city of Bursa yesterday, Armenia played against the team having the highest ratings–Russia. After an unexpected defeat with Greece (1-3), a victory was necessary for Armenia to regain its position.
Armenia was near a victory when Vladimir Akopian beat Alexander Morozevich [...]
(ARMENIAN WEEKLY)–”Open” is a beautiful, haunting autobiography by Andre Agassi, one of the most beloved athletes in history and one of the most gifted men ever to step onto a tennis court.
“Watch your volleys, he yells—or tries to. An Armenian, born in Iran, my father speaks five languages, none of them well, and his English [...]
YEREVAN (A1 plus) – On December 25 Serge Sarkisian signed a decree on granting world weightlifting champion of 2009 Nazik Vardanyan-Avdalyan the 2nd degree medal “For services to the Homeland” for keeping the honor of Armenia’s athletes high, properly representing Armenia abroad and promoting the development of weightlifting in the Republic of Armenia.
According to another [...]
YEREVAN (Tert.am)–The draw for the teams in the 2010 CIS Cup tournament took place yesterday. With the participation of CIS (Commonwealth of Independent States) champions, this time Armenia will be represented by Yerevan’s FC Pyunik, who will be in the 4th group.
Competing against Pyunik will be Uzbekistan’s FC Bunyodkor, run by former head coach of [...]
YEREVAN (Tert.am)–European Championship Women Division C will take place in Yerevan from June 28 to July 3, 2010. Eight European countries, including Armenia, will fight for a spot in the B Division, said Armenian Basketball Federation President Hrachya Rostomyan to ArmSport.am.
“Of course, that will be a great event for our basketball [sport] and the next [...]
YEREVAN (Panorama.am) – Best football player of Armenia 2009 has been qualified in the hall of Armenian Football Federation today. Henry Mkhitaryan from “Metalurg” of Donetsk and Armenian national football team has been grnated that honorable title. The chairman of AFF Ruben Hayrapetyan granted the best football player’s prize.
Davit Manoyan from “Pyuniq” and Armenian youth [...]
YEREVAN (Tert.am)–The game between Hatis Yerevan and Istanbul Besiktas women’s basketball teams took place at 7 pm yesterday. This game between the Armenian and Turkish teams was the last in the 2009/10 EuroCup Women Preliminary Round.
The teams faced off one another first in Istanbul where the Armenian team crushed their opponent, winning with a total [...]
YEREVAN (ArmeniaNow.com) – Armenia will have a modest participation in the upcoming Winter Olympics – the fifth in the history of independent Armenia, according to National Olympic Committee (NOCA) officials.
At the XXI Winter Olympic Games, Armenia will be represented by only three or four athletes, all competing in skiing. But NOCA hopes that another athlete, [...]
YEREVAN (Tert.am)–A recent survey by the Armenian Federation of Sport Journalists recognized Armenia’s best athlete in 2009 was weightlifter Nazik Avdalyan. The 2009 World Champion in weightlifting was awarded 520 points.
Sport journalists in Armenia voted weightlifter Arakel Mirzoyan at second place, with a total score of 420. Armenia’s best sports team for 2009 was awarded [...]