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    Emil Lazarian
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Sports: Armenian athlete Levon Aghasyan grabs gold at Balkan Championship

Panorama, Armenia
Feb 19 2018
Sport 19:12 19/02/2018Armenia

Armenian track and field athlete Levon Aghasyan won a gold medal at the 23rd Balkan Championship for Seniors hosted by Istanbul, Turkey.

The Armenian athlete showed a 16,35 meters result to win the champion’s title at the men's triple jump event, leaving behind the athlete from Bulgaria, the National Olympic Committee reported.

Earlier the 23-year-old Armenian became the champion of the international athletics competition for the prizes of Olympic Champion Olga Rypakova held in Kazakhstan.

Another Armenian sportsman Yervand Mkrtchyan won the bronze at the 1,500m race.

A total of 11 athletes from Armenia competed at the Istanbul tournament.

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