Sports: Two boxers to represent Armenia at World Championships

Public Radio of Armenia

Aug 17 2017

15:30, 17 Aug 2017

Armradio

Two Armenian boxers Hovhannes Bachkov (64kg) and Karen Tonakanyan (60kg) will represent Armenia at the 2017 AIBA World Boxing Championships, the Boxing Federation of Armenia told Panorama.am.

Hovhannes Bachkov won gold at the European Boxing Championships 2017 and Karen Tonakanyan reached the quarter-finals of the same championship, being qualified for the World Boxing Championships.

2017 AIBA World Boxing Championships is scheduled to be held in Hamburg, Germany from August 25 to September 2. The Armenian boxers will leave for the tournament under the leadership of the head coach David Torosyan.

Emil Lazarian

“I should like to see any power of the world destroy this race, this small tribe of unimportant people, whose wars have all been fought and lost, whose structures have crumbled, literature is unread, music is unheard, and prayers are no more answered. Go ahead, destroy Armenia . See if you can do it. Send them into the desert without bread or water. Burn their homes and churches. Then see if they will not laugh, sing and pray again. For when two of them meet anywhere in the world, see if they will not create a New Armenia.” - WS