ARMENIAN PRESIDENT AWARDS PRIZES TO WINNERS OF “BEST SPORT-AMATEUR FAMILY” COMPETITION
ARKA News Agency, Armenia
July 18 2005
YEREVAN, July 18. /ARKA/. RA President has awarded prizes to the
winners of the republican competition “Best sport-amateur family”
for the RA President’s prize. The winners of the competition,
Hovsepyan family (Armavir region), Sahakyan family (Yerevan), and
Mikaelyan family (Shirak region), received AMD 500,000, AMD 400,000
and AMD 300,000 from the President. Kocharyan pointed out that the
number of the competition participants is rising, and the fund of
the competition is increased. The President expressed wish that
the number of participants increase in conformity with the amount of
funds allocated for the competition and reach several hundred thousand
people. “There is no losers in this competition, as it is only families
for which sport is the way of life that win,” Kocharyan said.
In his turn, Chairman of the Committee for Physical Culture and Sport,
RA Government, Ishkhan Zakharyan pointed out that 83 families from
11 Armenian regions took part in this year’s competition against
54 last year. He said that only 33 families entered the finals and
continued struggling for the title of best sport-amateur family in
six competitions: ball throwing, standing broad jump, rope-pulling,
cross=country race, relay-race, and weight-lifting exercises. “Twelve
million drams were allocated for the competition this year due to the
President’s support, whereas only about 1.5mln AMD were allocated last
year,” Zakharyan said. According to him, such competitions contribute
to sport development in Armenia.
The President presented all the competition participants aged under
12 with tracksuits. The smallest participants in the competition,
6-year-old Aramais Sargsyan and Mariam Beglaryan, who broke the record
in weight-lifting exercises, received AMD 100,000 bonuses instituted
by the RA Olympic Committee.
The competition was organized by the State Committee for Physical
Culture, RA Government, with the sponsorship of the RA President.P.T.
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