Sports: Armenian figure skater Slavik Hayrapetyan takes 15th spot at Europeans

Panorama, Armenia

Jan 20 2018

Sport 11:59 20/01/2018Armenia

Armenian figure skater Slavik Hayrapetyan took the 15th spot at the 2018 European Figure Skating Championships hosted by Moscow, Russia.

Showing a strong performance both in the short and free programs, the Armenian athlete finished with a combined total of 196.63 points setting a personal record, the National Olympic Committee reported.

Hayrapetyan scored 127.14 points in the free program taking the 16th place among the 24 finalists.

Javier Fernandez of Span claimed the European Champion’s title with a total of 295.55 points, outcompeting his rivals Dmitri Aliev (274.06) and Mikhail Kolyada (258.90).

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