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Judo of Armenia

Judo of Armenia

Judo entered the Republic of Armenia at the end of 1960-ies, when the young students of the coach of Sambo wrestling from Gyumri – Robert Hovhannisyan showed high results in the international arena: Hovhannes Sargsyan won the honorable second prize at the European Youth Championship, which took place in England in 1968, and Aram Grigoryan won the third prize at the European Youth Championship, which took place in Italy in 1969. Telman Qocharyan from Yerevan, who had high sports results in Greco-Roman and Sambo wrestling in 1968 started to work as a coach and prepared a...