Serzh Sargsyan to travel to Brazil
11.08.2016,
10:46
YEREVAN, August 11. /ARKA/. Serzh Sargsyan, Armenian president, will travel to Brazil to display his support for Armenian sportspeople in the Olympics, the presidential press office reports.
He is also set to attend the Armenian embassy stone-laying ceremony in the capital of Brazil and to meet some officials there. ---0----
He is also set to attend the Armenian embassy stone-laying ceremony in the capital of Brazil and to meet some officials there. ---0----
YEREVAN, August 11. /ARKA/. Serzh Sargsyan, Armenian president, will travel to Brazil to display his support for Armenian sportspeople in the Olympics, the presidential press office reports.
He is also set to attend the Armenian embassy stone-laying ceremony in the capital of Brazil and to meet some officials there.
Thirty-three Armenian athletes have qualified for the 31st Games, the highest number of athletes ever sent by Armenia to Olympic Games.
Overall, Armenian athletes (after its became independent from former Soviet Union) have won 12 Olympic medals, including one gold and two silver medals. The gold medal was won by wrestler Armen Nazaryan in 1996 Games in Atlanta, USA.
The first ethnic Armenian athlete winning Olympic gold was gymnast Hrant Shahinyan as a member of the USSR team in 1952 in Helsinki. There Shahinyan won two gold and two silver medals.
Other ethnic Armenian winners of the Olympic Games are gymnasts Albert Azaryan and Eduard Azaryan, pentathlete Igor Novikov, boxer Vladimir Yengibaryan, Faina Melnik (discus), weightlifters Yuri Vardanyan, Oxen Mirzoyan, Yisrael Militosyan and wrestlers Levon Julfalakyan and Mnatsakan Iskandaryan .-0---
He is also set to attend the Armenian embassy stone-laying ceremony in the capital of Brazil and to meet some officials there.
Thirty-three Armenian athletes have qualified for the 31st Games, the highest number of athletes ever sent by Armenia to Olympic Games.
Overall, Armenian athletes (after its became independent from former Soviet Union) have won 12 Olympic medals, including one gold and two silver medals. The gold medal was won by wrestler Armen Nazaryan in 1996 Games in Atlanta, USA.
The first ethnic Armenian athlete winning Olympic gold was gymnast Hrant Shahinyan as a member of the USSR team in 1952 in Helsinki. There Shahinyan won two gold and two silver medals.
Other ethnic Armenian winners of the Olympic Games are gymnasts Albert Azaryan and Eduard Azaryan, pentathlete Igor Novikov, boxer Vladimir Yengibaryan, Faina Melnik (discus), weightlifters Yuri Vardanyan, Oxen Mirzoyan, Yisrael Militosyan and wrestlers Levon Julfalakyan and Mnatsakan Iskandaryan .-0---
