ARMENIAN SPORTSMEN TAKE 9TH PLACE IN TEAM STRUGGLE IN FIRST SPORTS GAMES OF MEMBER COUNTRIES OF BLACK SEA ECONOMIC COOPERATION ORGANIZATION

Noyan Tapan
Jul 10, 2007

YEREVAN, JULY 10, NOYAN TAPAN. The Armenian delegation, which took
part in the first sports games of the member countries of the Black
Sea Economic Cooperation Organization returned to its native country
from the city of Trabzon in Turkey on July 9. Yeghish Davtian, the
Head of the delegation, informed a Noyan Tapan correspondent that
about 2 thousand and 5 hundred sportsmen from 11 countries, including
38 from Armenia, took part in these sports games. The latters took
part in 5 out of 11 kinds of sport included in the program of these
games. The Armenian representative team took 9th place in the team
struggle with the calculation of medals: everybody was awarded with
medals, except football players. As for the delegates of Russia,
Turkey, and the Ukraine, they took first three places.

The next games will take place in the city of Constantsa in Romania
in 2010.