INDIVIDUAL SKATER GEGHAM VARDANIAN DOES NOT PASS TO FINAL IN WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP

Noyan Tapan
March 26, 2009

LOS ANGELES, MARCH 26, NOYAN TAPAN. Men individual skaters performed
under the World Figure Skating Championship program on March 25 in
Los Angeles.

21-year-old Gegham Vardanian, who was for the first time taking part
in such an authoritative tournament, took the 48th place among 52
participants and did not pass to the final. Besides, he was demobilized
from the army in 2008 May and trained only 5-6 months.

Hungarian Armenian Tigran Vardanian did not pass to the final,
either, who took the 31st place. He trains led by his father, USSR
twice cup-holder, former Yerevan resident Gurgen Vardanian.