ARMENIAN BOXER QUALIFIES FOR BEIJING OLYMPIC GAMES
ARMENPRESS
Oct 31, 2007
YEREVAN, OCTOBER 31, ARMENPRESS: An Armenian boxer has qualified
for the Olympic Games in Beijing after upsetting a South Korean
rival reaching the quarter-final of the world boxing championship in
Chicago, USA.
The boxer is Eduard Hambardzumian, 64 kg.
Regardless of his further performance he has won the right to represent
his country in 2008 Games.
Eduard Hambardzumian has become the fifth Armenian athlete to qualify
for the Games. Others are Greco-Roman style wrestler Arman Adikian,
shooter Norayr Bakhtamyan and judoists Hovhaness Davtian and Armen
Nazarian.
President of the Armenian National Olympic Committee Gagik Tsarukian
has pledged a $700,000 reward for a gold medal of the Olympics.