WORLD BOXING CHAMPIONSHIP: EIGHT ARMENIAN BOXERS TO MEET CHALLENGE

Panorama.am
16:22 27/05/2009

AIBA World Youth Boxing Championship preliminary stage was over on
26 May. After four-day long matches Armenian boxing team occupies
second horizontal among 42 countries.

Today the fourth finals should be launched and 8 boxers of our national
team take part in it. Russian team occupies the first horizontal
due to the number of its victories. Kazakhstan team closes the best
three chain.

Cuba occupies 4th, USA – 5th and Turkey – 6th horizontals.

Since 2001 Russian boxing team leads the current championship, Armenia
participated in Youth Boxing Championship in 2002 and gained one
silver medal. Today our eight boxers have serious challenge to meet.