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Sport Roundup: Pyunik showing championship form
(again)
By Suren Musayelyan
ArmeniaNow reporter
Football
FC Pyunik (Yerevan) with 50 points remain a clear leader and top title
contender after round 19 of Armenia’s national football
championship. The defending champions are followed by the capital’s FC
Banants and Ashtarak’s FC Mika.
FC Ararat also has real chances to contest a medal this season. Under
the new coach Varuzhan Sukiasyan the Yerevan footballers have not lost
a single point yet.
Meanwhile, footballers playing in Armenia’s top league continue to
sign for foreign clubs. Artashes Baghdasaryan has left Yerevan’s FC
Kilikia to join Austrian Superfund, and Banants striker Vahe
Tadevosyan will play for Switzerland’s FC Arau.
FC Pyunik midfielder (and of the National and youth teams), Levon
Pachajian has been given on loan to Israel’s FC Hapoel (Petah Tikva)
until spring 2007.
(Source: based on Armenian Football Federation reports and information
from A1 Plus’ website)
Judo
At the European youth championships in the Estonian capital of
Tallinn, Armenia’s Anush Hakobyan (52 kg) won the silver
medal. Another Armenian athlete participating in the event Paylak
Vardazaryan became a bronze medalist.
(Source: Armenpress news agency)
Wrestling
Armenian wrestlers will take part in the Greco-Roman and freestyle
wrestling world championships due to be held in China from September
22 to October 1.
Armenia’s team of Greco-Roman wrestlers includes: Roman Amoyan (55
kg), Karen Mnatsakanyan (60 kg), Artak Harutyunyan (66 kg), Movses
Karapetyan (74 kg), Tigran Sahakyan (84 kg), and Yuri Patrikeev (120
kg).
The freestyle wrestling team includes eight wrestlers, including one
woman: Vahan Simonyan (55 kg), Armen Karapetyan (60 kg), Zhirair
Hovhannisyan (66 kg), Ruslan Kokaev (74 kg), Vadim Laliev (84 kg),
Shamil Gitiev (96 kg), Ruslan Basiev (120 kg), and Karine Shadoyan (63
kg).
(Source: Armenpress news agency)