Sports: Armenia’s Hamlet Manukyan becomes 2-time world junior champion

Armenia – April 1 2023

Team Armenia won their second gold medal at the second Junior World Artistic Gymnastics Championships being held in Antalya, Turkey.

Hamlet Manukyan, 15, became two-time world champion in the Rings exercise final, and became a gold medalist with 13.633 points.

Armenia's Erik Baghdasaryan scored 13.400 points and took fourth place.

Earlier, Armenia won two medals in the Pommel Horse exercise. Hamlet Manukyan, 15, became the junior world champion, and Mamikon Khachatryan won the silver medal.

The Armenian national team took part in the team competition for the first time at the second Junior World Artistic Gymnastics Championships and placed fourth.

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