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Armenian Wrestling Federation files appeal over Aleksanyan's Olympic loss
The Armenian Wrestling Federation officially filed an appeal regarding the outcome of Artur Aleksanyan's match in the 2024 Olympic final, the country’s Ministry of Education, Science, Culture, and Sports reported on Friday. YEREVAN, August 9. /ARKA/. The Armenian ...
08/09/2024Armenian wrestlers Artur Aleksanyan and Malkhas Amoyan reach semi-finals of Olympic Games
Olympic medalist, multiple world and European Greco-Roman wrestling champion Artur Aleksanyan (97 kg) defeated Uzbekistan’s Rustam Asakalov in 1/4 finals with the score 9:5 and entered the semifinals of the Olympic Games. YEREVAN, 6 August. /ARKA/. Olympic medalist, multiple world and European Greco-Roman ...
08/06/2024Ucom main sponsor of Armenia’s team at Summer Olympics
... third time Ucom has sponsored Armenia's participation in the Olympics. The 33rd Summer Olympics will take place in Paris from July 26 to August 11. Fifteen athletes from Armenia will represent the country in Olympic shooting, weightlifting, athletics, wrestling, boxing, and gymnastics. “The Olympics are the world’s main sporting event, followed by millions of people worldwide, including Armenians. We are happy that thanks to Ucom, the Armenian viewers will be able to watch our athletes' performances ...
07/10/2024Visa and Unibank offer unique opportunities to Olympic Games fans
... cards for daily purchases and payments, and will keep them as a unique souvenir”, said Mesrop Hakobyan, CEO of Unibank. “Promotion of a healthy lifestyle and sport is a part of our team’s social mission. Unibank is the main sponsor of the Armenian Wrestling Federation and the Unisport club. We wish the Armenian athletes the best of luck and incredible achievements in Paris, and our clients exciting emotions." Visa has been a committed Worldwide Olympic Games Partner since 1986. In addition ...
02/23/2024Two Armenian athletes win gold at European championships
Armenian woman weightlifter Alexandra Grigoryan (55 kg) won the European champion title for the first time in her career with the result of 196 kg at the championship held in Sofia, Bulgaria, the Ministry of Education, Science, Culture and Sport reported. YEREVAN, February 14. /ARKA/. Armenian woman weightlifter Alexandra Grigoryan (55 kg) won the European champion title for the first time in her career with the result of 196 kg at the championship held in Sofia, Bulgaria, the Ministry of Education...
02/14/2024Fastex to Provide up to 5 Million $FTN to the “Olympionic” Sports Foundation
... the athletes and coaches who won from the 1st to the 3rd places in the Olympic, Paralympic, Sword Olympic Games, sports included in the program of the Olympic Games, as well as international tournaments not included in the Olympic Games, such as sambo wrestling, international checkers, wushu and chess. The 5 million $FTNs have been segregated from the total supply and securely frozen on the blockchain until 2030. The 5 million $FTNs will be methodically unblocked in accordance with a predefined pattern,...
02/06/2024Unibank becomes main sponsor of Wrestling Federation of Armenia
“Unibank” OJSC has become the main sponsor of the Wrestling Federation of Armenia. Mesrop Hakobyan, CEO of Unibank, and Robert Khachatryan, the Chairman of the Wrestling Federation of Armenia, signed a cooperation contract. YEREVAN, November 27. /ARKA/. “Unibank” OJSC has become the main sponsor ...
11/27/2023Unibank is the main sponsor of Unisport club
... popularization of sports”, said Mesrop Hakobyan, CEO of Unibank. Famous athletes who will participate in the Olympic Games in the summer of 2024 have already joined the club. Unisport club members include Malkhas Amoyan, world champion of Greco-Roman wrestling and two-time European champion, Elmira Karapetyan, gold medalist of the World Shooting Cup, bronze medalist of the European Championship, silver medalist and record holder of the European Games, Slavik Galstyan, World bronze medalist of Greco-Roman ...
11/17/2023Five Armenian sports federations to get more than AMD 1 billion for preparation for World and European championships
... sports in 2023. The decision was made at the government’s session on April 13. The funds will be provided to the Ministry of Education, Science, Culture and Sports for redistribution to the national federations of basketball, badminton, volleyball, wrestling and football to ensure proper participation in the European and world championships. --0—
04/14/2023Music teachers and coaches in Armenia will receive pay rise after passing certification exam
... a pay increment after passing a voluntary certification exam. According to Minister of Education, Science, Culture and Sports Zhanna Andresayan, at the frist stage teachers of piano and music theory , as well as coaches of freestyle and Greco-Roman wrestling, sambo and judo will be able to apply. The minister said the certification exam will be considered passed if the applicant scores 70% of points. Depending on the score the size of extra payment will be determined: 70-79% - AMD 60 thousand, 80-89% ...
03/02/2023Music, art school teachers and coaches will be able to receive extra pay after successful certification
... salaries of coaches and teachers differ. She said the decision aims to balance the difference in pay. She said the first in line for certification are teachers of piano, solfeggio and musical literature, as well as coaches of Greco-Roman and freestyle wrestling, sambo and judo. She said teachers and coaches will have the opportunity to apply for certification in March, be certified in April and start getting higher pay from May. According to Andreasyan, there are currently 240 music, fine arts and ...
01/12/2023Armenian freestyle wrestlers win 4 medals in Warsaw
Armenia’s national freestyle wrestling team has successfully performed at an international tournament held July 20-24 in Warsaw, Poland. YEREVAN, July 22. /ARKA/. Armenia’s national freestyle wrestling team has successfully performed at an international tournament held July 20-24 in Warsaw, Poland. According to the press service of the Ministry of Education, Science, Culture and Sports, all four Armenian wrestlers in the national team won ...
07/22/2022Government releases 200 million drams for preparing athletes for international competitions
... "These funds will be used to purchase modern equipment and conduct training sessions so that Armenian athletes can prepare for world and European championships in 2022," Khzmalyan noted. He said the money will be distributed to basketball, boxing, wrestling, swimming, weightlifting, shooting, gymnastics, judo, fencing, volleyball and tennis federations. ($1 - $450.71 dram). --0--
05/26/2022Top ten Armenian athletes of the year named
... journalists have named the best ten athletes of the year: YEREVAN, December 21. /ARKA/. Head coaches of Armenian national teams and sports journalists have named the best ten athletes of the year: The list includes: Artur Alexanyan - Greco-Roman wrestling (silver medalist of the Tokyo Games) Malkhas Amoyan - Greco-Roman wrestling (world and European U23 champion) Hovhannes Bachkov - boxing (World Championship bronze medalist) Elina Danielyan - chess (European Individual Championship winner) Artur ...
12/21/2021Armenia’s artistic gymnast Artur Davtyan wins bronze at Tokyo Olympic Games: Greco-Roman wrestler Artur Aleksanyan to fight for gold
Armenia’s Artur Davtyan has won bronze at the Tokyo Olympic Games artistic gymnastics scoring 14.733 in the men’s vault final. YEREVAN, August 2, /ARKA/. Armenia’s Artur Davtyan has won bronze at the Tokyo Olympic Games artistic gymnastics scoring 14.733 in the men’s vault final. Jeahwah Shin of South Korea has won gold with 14.783 and Denis Abliazin of the Russian Olympic Committee has won silver with 14.783. In another news from Tokyo, Armenian Greco-Roman wrestler Artur Aleksanyan has made...
08/02/2021Government of Armenia releases 50 million drams for awarding best ten athletes of the country in 2019
... in 2019. Minister of Education, Science, Culture and Sports Araik Harutyunyan said each of them will receive 5 million drams. The top ten athletes in 2019 were Arthur Avetisyan (gymnastics), Hovhannes Bachkov (boxing), Arthur Aleksanyan (Greco-Roman wrestling), Slavik Galstyan (Greco-Roman wrestling), Ruben Aleksanyan (weightlifting), Tigran Kirakosyan (sambo) ), Arsen Harutyunyan (freestyle wrestling), Hakob Mkrtchyan (weightlifting), Gor Minasyan (weightlifting) and Simon Martirosyan (weightlifting)....
02/20/2020Armenia's Artur Aleksanyan becomes five-time European champion in Greco-Roman wrestling
Armenian Greco-Roman wrestler Artur Aleksanyan (97 kg) won Wednesday gold at the European Championships under way in Rome, Italy, after defeating Italy’s Nikoloz Kakhelashvili. YEREVAN, February 13. /ARKA/. Armenian Greco-Roman wrestler Artur Aleksanyan (97 kg) won Wednesday gold at the European Championships under way in Rome, Italy, after defeating Italy’s Nikoloz Kakhelashvili. At this championship, Armenian athletes won two gold and two bronze medals. Artur Aleksanyan and Gevorg Gharibyan...
02/13/20201XBet bookmaker office available in Armenia now
... the company, there is no need to think over unnecessary things - it is enough to plunge into the world of your favorite game. 1xBet ensures high coefficients and guaranteed payments, which can always be multiplied on the company's website. Football, wrestling or chess - everybody can place a bet on everything he/she finds interesting. About the website The official website of the bookmaker company 1xBet has 50+ language versions designed for dozen hundred thousand 1xBet everyday players. Players ...
01/29/2020Pashinyan: Pan-Armenian Games could provide key platform for all-national dialogue
... number of delegates with 86 participants as compared to previous Games. According to the government's press office, Pan-Armenian Games World Committee Chairman Ishkhan Zakaryan introduced the committee members, noting that football, chess, cycling, arm-wrestling tournaments had already started in Artsakh - Askeran, Martakert, Martuni - tomorrow. The Seventh Pan-Armenian Summer Games program features a total of 17 sporting events: 5 tournaments in Artsakh, 12 - in Yerevan. He gave details on the accommodation ...
08/07/2019New sports school to be built in Armenian Gyumri
A new sports school named after Olympic champion in Greco-Roman wrestling Arthur Aleksanyan to be built in Armenia’s second-largest town of Gyumri will cost 480 million drams (about $998,000), the acting Minister of Sports and Youth Affairs Gabriel Ghazaryan told a news conference today. YEREVAN, May 7. /ARKA/....
05/07/2019Armenian armed forces set to have sport companies
Armenian armed forces are set to have sport companies, Defense Minister David Tonoyan said on April 17 in response to a question from lawmaker Arsen Julfalakyan from My Step faction, who is a world champion in Greco-Roman wrestling. YEREVAN, April 18. /ARKA/. Armenian armed forces are set to have sport companies, Defense Minister David Tonoyan said on April 17 in response to a question from lawmaker Arsen Julfalakyan from My Step faction, who is a world champion in ...
04/18/2019Armenia’s Malkhas Amoyan wins gold in Junior World Greco-Roman Wrestling Championships
Malkhas Amoyan has won the gold medal in the 2018 Junior World Greco-Roman Wrestling Championships in Trnava, Slovakia, in the category up to 67 kilogram weight. YEREVAN, September 20. /ARKA/. Malkhas Amoyan has won the gold medal in the 2018 Junior World Greco-Roman Wrestling Championships in Trnava, Slovakia, in ...
09/20/2018VTB Bank (Armenia) holds its first Spartakiad
.... The tournaments took place in Park Resort Aghveran hotel compound. More than 500 employees of the bank’s head office and branches took part in the event. They competed in eight sports – football, volleyball, rope war, race, table tennis, arm wrestling, darts and chess blitz. Ivan Telegin, CEO and chairman of the VTB Bank (Armenia) directorial board, addressing the Spartakiad participants and guests, stressed the importance of the event. The key aim of the bank’s Spartakiad is to support ...
06/27/2018Armenia’s Artur Alexanyan secures third consecutive world title
... Championships in Paris yesterday after beating Russia’s Musa Yevloyev 3-1. Aleksanyan is now a three-time World Champion (2014, 2015, 2017), and a three-time European Champion (2012, 2013, 2014). Aleksanyan was born in 1991 in Gyumri. He started Greco-Roman wrestling in 2000 under the guidance of his father, wrestling coach Gevorg Aleksanyan. -0-
08/22/2017Armenian wrestler wins world youth championship silver
... Karen Zurabyan (50 weight category) has won the silver medal of the World Youth Championship, the press service of the Ministry of Sport and Youth Affairs of Armenia reported. On the same day, Sargis Hovsepyan, a member of the Armenian youth freestyle wrestling team (96 kg weight category) has come in fifth. The Armenian team is led by the head coach Avetik Vardanyan. The championship is being held from 1 to 6 August in the city of Tampere in Finland. Greco-Roman style wrestlers will start bouts on ...
08/02/2017Armenia’s junior wrestlers win medals at international tournament in Belarus
... Gevorg Mkheyan (weight category 70 kg) and Hovhannes Magakyan (weight category 125 kg). Vardkes Karapetyan (weight category 65 kg), Arman Andreasyan (weight category 70 kg) and Hovhannes Mkhitaryan (weight category 86 kg) won bronze medals. Now the youth wrestling assembly is in Russia’s republic of North Ossetia for a training camp until June 10. -0-
05/29/2017Armenian arm-wrestlers won six medals at Europe championship
... (weight category 60 kg), Vladimir Mnatsakanyan (weight category 85 kg), David Boyakhchyan (weight category 110 kg) and juniors David Madoyan (weight category +90 kg). The national team of Armenia was represented by ten athletes. The president of Arm-Wrestling Federation of Armenia Arsen Gabrielyan said now Armenian arm wrestlers will prepare for the World Championship in Budapest (September 2-11). -0-
05/22/2017About $6.8 million of private investments to be made in construction of sport facilities in 2017
....4 million will be invested in the construction of a sports and recreation complex on 4,800 square meters in the administrative district of Kanaker-Zeytun in Yerevan. The construction work is scheduled to be completed in February 2018. A Greco-Roman Wrestling School for children will be built in Armenia’s second-largest town of Gyumri in Shirak province. According to the ministry, the construction of a swimming pool in the town of Ijevan in Tavush province is expected to be over in 2017 December....
04/12/2017Armenia to have greater success in next Olympic Games - Sargsyan
... winners of the 31st Olympian Games and their trainers and handing them high state awards, expressed hope that Armenia will have a greater success in next Olympic Games. Armenia’s Artur Aleksanyan (98 kilograms) picked up Olympic gold in Greco-Roman wrestling. Weightlifters Simon Martirosyan (up to 105 kg) and Gor Minasyan (over 105 kg) as well as Greco-Roman wrestler Mihran Harutyunyan won silver medals. The latter missed gold because the referring was biased. “I am very glad that after a twenty-year ...
09/19/2016Armenia ranked 42nd in Rio Olympics overall medal standings
... countries hitting the record high. Armenia, with its one gold and three silvers, stands between Turkey (one gold, three silvers and four bronzes) and Czech Republic (1-2-7). Armenia’s Artur Aleksanyan (98 kilograms) picked up Olympic gold in Greco-Roman wrestling. Weightlifters Simon Martirosyan (up to 105 kg) and Gor Minasyan (over 105 kg) as well as Greco-Roman wrestler Mihran Harutyunyan won silver medals. The latter missed gold because the referring was biased. Top five medal-gainers in Rio Olympics ...
08/22/2016Artur Aleksanyan picks up Olympic gold in Greco-Roman wrestling for Armenia
Armenia’s Artur Aleksanyan won Olympic gold in Greco-Roman wrestling on Tuesday by beating Cuban opponent Yasmany Lugo Cabrera in the 98-kilogram category. YEREVAN, August 17. /ARKA/. Armenia’s Artur Aleksanyan won Olympic gold in Greco-Roman wrestling on Tuesday by beating Cuban opponent Yasmany Lugo ...
08/17/2016Fifteen Armenian wrestlers to fight for medals and Rio Olympics qualification
Eight Armenian Greco-Roman style and seven free style wrestlers will travel to Las Vegas, USA, to represent their country at the World Wrestling Championship to be held from 7 -12 September 2015, the press service of the Armenian ministry of sport and youth affairs said. YEREVAN, September 3. / ARKA /. Eight Armenian Greco-Roman style and seven free style wrestlers will travel ...
09/03/2015Armenia is one of more than 20 countries lying in debt danger zone- The Guardian
Armenia is one of more than 20 countries wrestling with their own debt crises, according to a story in the British daily The Guardian that cites the findings of a new analysis conducted by the Jubilee Debt Campaign. YEREVAN, July 14. / ARKA /. Armenia is one of more than 20 countries ...
07/14/2015Armenian sport minister endorses NOC decision to send athletes to Azerbaijan
... to participate in this year’s inaugural European Games in Azerbaijan, saying the opposite decision would damage Armenia’s international image. Armenian athletes are expected to compete for medals in sambo (unarmed self-defense), shooting, judo, wrestling, boxing and taekwondo. Ghazaryan stressed that security guarantees to Armenian athletes were given by the International and European Olympic Committees. The first European Olympic Games, which will be held every four years, will be held ...
03/11/2015Ameria’s fifth charity auction underway in Yerevan
... La Hoya, Alex Miskirtchian, as well as uniforms and football balls with autographs of the Armenian national soccer team and other articles owned by other famous athletes. The event is being attended by renowned athletes and GMs - Greco-Roman Wrestling Olympic champion and World and European Championships gold medalist Levon Julfalakyan, three-time Olympic champion in gymnastics, four-time world champion and two-time European champion Albert Azarian, Olympic chess champion grandmaster Tigran ...
12/12/2014Ameria Group of companies to conduct fifth traditional charity auction for treatment of sick children
... "Sports for Life" brings together Armenian and foreign athletes who won international acclaim and who donated sports equipment with their autographs," the press release says. The event will be attended by renowned athletes and GMs - Greco-Roman Wrestling Olympic champion and World and European Championships gold medalist Levon Julfalakyan, three-time Olympic champion in gymnastics, four-time world champion and two-time European champion Albert Azarian, Olympic chess champion grandmaster Tigran ...
12/11/2014EU tells Britain to pay extra €2.1bn
... country’s net contribution last year. France, meanwhile, will receive a €1bn rebate, according to Brussels calculations seen by the Financial Times. The one-off bill will infuriate eurosceptic MPs at an awkward moment for the prime minister, who is wrestling with strong anti-EU currents in British politics that are buffeting his party and prompting a rethink of the UK’s place in Europe. Mr Cameron is determined to challenge the additional fee and last night met with Mark Rutte, the Netherlands ...
10/24/2014Armenia’s Artur Aleksanyan wins second Greco-Roman wrestling champion title in Tashkent
Armenia’s Greco-Roman wrestler Artur Alexanyan has won the gold medal of the world championship held in Tashkent, Uzbekistan, beating Germany’s Oliver Adrian Hasler 8:0 in 98-kilogram weight category in the final. YEREVAN, September 16. /ARKA/. Armenia’s Greco-Roman wrestler Artur Alexanyan has won the gold medal of the world championship held in Tashkent, Uzbekistan, beating Germany’s Oliver Adrian Hasler 8:0 in 98-kilogram weight category in the final. It is the second gold medal of...
09/16/2014Armenian team wins seven medals at Youth Olympic Games
... August 28. / ARKA /. Armenia’s national team has won seven medals in five sports in the Second Youth Olympic Games in Chinese Nanjing. Armenian athletes have won two gold medals in weightlifting, two silver medals in shooting and Greco-Roman wrestling and three bronze medals- one in the boxing and two in wrestling. The Second Youth Olympic Games in Nanjing took place from 16 to 28 August. -0-
08/28/2014Armenia’s wrestler Arthur Alexanyan wins gold of European Championship
Arthur Alexanyan, Armenian Greko-Roman wrestler, won the gold medal at the European Wrestling Championship in Tbilisi defeating Bulgaria’s Vladislav Metodiev. YEREVAN, March 25. /ARKA/. Arthur Alexanyan, Armenian Greko-Roman wrestler, won the gold medal at the European Wrestling Championship in Tbilisi defeating Bulgaria’s ...
03/25/2013Head coach of Armenian wrestling team to protest against IOC’s decision to drop wrestling from Summer Games
The head coach of Armenian Greco-Roman wrestling team, Levon Julfalakyan, a world and Olympic champion, said Thursday he plans to protest in Tehran against the IOC’s decision to drop wrestling from 2020 Summer Games. The coach will be in the Iranian capital city which will be hosting the ...
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