ARMENIAN WEIGHTLIFTING NATIONAL TEAM STARTS PREPARING FOR WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP

NOYAN TAPAN
15:40 – 22.06.2009

The World Weightlifting Championship will be held between November
17 to 27 in South Korea. Though there are still 5 months until the
championship, Armenia’s weightlifting national team started preparing
for it from June 15.

The teaching and training gathering that will finish on June 25
proceeds in Tsakhkadzor. 15 weightlifters train headed by 4 coaches. RA
Weightlifting Federation Secretary General Pashik Alaverdian told Noyan
Tapan correspondent that gatherings and trainings will be permanent. He
expressed the hope that Armenian sportsmen will perform successfully in
Korea and will continue the best traditions of Armenian weightlifting.