Sports: Armenia’s top 10 athletes of the year announced

Public Radio of Armenia

Dec 21 2021

, 18:54

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The Ministry of Education, Science, Culture and Sports has published the names of ten best athletes of 2021.

The athletes were selected by a combined vote of the sports journalists and head coaches of national teams.

Below are the names of the winners:

Artur Aleksanyan – Greco-Roman wrestling
Malkhas Amoyan – Greco-Roman wrestling
Hovhannes Bachkov – boxing
Elina Danielyan – chess
Artur Davtyan – gymnastics
Varazdat Lalayan – weightlifting
Arsen Harutyunyan – freestyle wrestling
Simon Martirosyan – weightlifting
Gor Minasyan – weightlifting
David Chaloyan – boxing

Greco-Roman wrestler Malkhas Amoyan was also вон the People’s Choice Award.

Every athlete selected to the top 10 will receive 4 million AMD. Another $1 million will be allocated to their coaching staffs.

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