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Armenian boxer Hovhannes Bachkov (63kg) has advanced to the quarterfinals at the Tokyo Olympics after beating his Azerbaijani rival in the men’s lightweight event. The Armenian boxer took an impressive 4:1 win over Azerbaijan’s Javid Chalabiyev in the preliminaries on Saturday, the Armenian National Olympic Committee (ANOC) re...

July 31, 2021 - 10:28 AMT PanARMENIAN.Net - Lightweight Armenian boxer Hovhannes Bachkov (63kg) has advanced to the Tokyo Olympics quarterfinals with an impressive 4:1 victory over Azerbaijan’s Javid Chalabiyev on Saturday, July 31. Bachkov will face Elnur Abduraimov of Uzbekistan his quarterfinal bout. The matchup was establis...

Armenian boxer Hovhannes Bachkov moved towards lightweight quarterfinals at Tokyo 2020 with a 4:1 victory over Azerbaijan’s Javid Chalabiyev, days after defeating Alston Ryan of Antigua and Barbuda. Bachkov’s next opponent is Uzbekistan’s Elnur Abduraimov. The bout is set for August 3. Editing by Stepan Kocharyan...

Armenian boxer Arman Darchinyan has advanced to the quarter-finals at the Tokyo Olympics after making a successful start. Darchinyan (75 kg) faced Andrej Csemez from Slovakia in the 1/8 finals on Thursday. The Armenian boxer defeated his rival 5-0 to make it through to the quarter-finals....

Armenian boxer Arman Darchinyan made a successful start at the Summer Olympic Games in Tokyo. Darchinyan, 75 kg, started the fight from 1/8 final where he competed with Andrej Csemez from Slovakia. The Armenian boxer won with a score of 5:0. Editing and Translating by Aneta Harutyunyan...

Armenian deputy minister of education, science, culture and sport Karen Giloyan says this year’s Summer Olympic Games without fans seem to be soulless. He told Armenpress that a very serious attention is paid to coronavirus-related rules during these Games as participants are constantly giving tests for COVID-19. “In terms of or...

Russia’s taekwondo fighter Maxim Khramtsov won gold on Monday of the 2020 Summer Olympic Games in Japan in the under-80 kilograms weight category, TASS reported. The 23-year-old Russian fighter took the gold after defeating in the final bout Saleh Elsharabaty of Jordan with the score of 20-9. The sport of taekwondo was introd...

Abe Hifumi has won Japan’s third judo gold medal at its home Olympics with an ippon victory over Georgia’s Vazha Margvelashvili. He joins his younger sibling, Uta, who won gold on the same day, making them the first ever brother and sister to win gold on the same day in any individual sport in Olympic history, the official webs...

July 26, 2021 - 12:45 AMT PanARMENIAN.Net - Armenian midfielder Henrikh Mkhitaryan, who formerly played at Manchester United, has said that manager Jose Mourinho "doesn't care if we play bad football" after reuniting at Roma, as he revealed their issues at Old Trafford are a thing of the past. Mkhitaryan spent 18 months under M...

July 26, 2021 - 11:35 AMT PanARMENIAN.Net - Armenian grandmaster Haik M. Martirosyan claimed the only win at the Chess World Cup in Sochi on Sunday, July 25, where the fifth round started with seven other matches, al of which ended in stalemates, FIDE reports. Martirosyan beat Iran's Amin Tabatabaei in game one, meaning a win o...