Satenik Sargsyan. In 2018, Armenia won 86 medals at the EuropeWorld Championship: 30 gold medals, 24 silver ones and 32 bronze medals and all of them in youth and youth competitions alone, Deputy Minister of Sports and Youth Affairs Gabriel Ghazaryan stated. "Every year the number of athletes-medalists representing Armenia increases," Ghazaryan said. "We are implementing large-scale projects for the development of mass sports, involving citizens of different age groups, paying much attention to draft age as well, implementing relevant projects, and we see qualitative growth," he said.

Speaking about the summer Olympic Games in Tokyo in 2020, he said that Armenia will send more athletes than to the Olympics in Rio-2016. Armenia was represented by 32 sportsmen in 8 sports at the summer Olympic Games in 2016. "Moreover, we will be represented in new disciplines in which we have not participated in previous years," Ghazaryan said.