Sports: Shooter Hayk Babayan qualified for 2018 Junior Olympic Games

Emil Lazarian 2018
Panorama, Armenia
Feb 19 2018
Sport 16:20 19/02/2018 Armenia

Young Armenian shooter Hayk Babayan has qualified for the 2018 Youth Olympic Games after showing a strong performance in the European Shooting Championship taking place in Győr, Hungary.

He collected a total of 618,4 points at the final of 10 meter air rifle event and took the fifth spot securing a place at the Buenos Aires 2018 Summer Youth Olympic Games, the National Olympic Committee said.

Another Armenian representative Vrezh Torosyan came the 7th at the same event. 

In the 10m air rifle girls’ event, Armenia’s Alla Poghosyan took the 9th place in the qualifying round and failed to make it through to the final. 

Emil Lazarian

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