Carl Bardakian, a former NCAA Division I assistant basketball coach, will lead Armenia’s men’s national team in preparations for next summer’s FIBA European Division C Championship, it emerged on Tuesday.

Arman Yeremyan has become the first Armenian taekwondo athlete to qualify for the Olympic Games.

According to the Armenian National Olympic Committee, the Armenian athlete secured his participation in the 2012 London Olympics after winning a gold medal at the European Qualification Tournament (under 80-kg w/c) in Kazan, Russia.

Armenian grandmaster Levon Aronian has won the top prize at a prestigious international competition that ended in the Netherlands on Sunday.

In the 13th and final round of the annual Tata Steel tournament in Wijk aan Zee Aronian earned a draw against Azeri grandmaster Teimour Radjabov to score 9 points overall and finish on top of the 14-man standings.

Armenian grandmaster Levon Aronian has widened his lead at the Tata Steel tournament in the Netherlands after scoring yet another victory on Wednesday.

Aronian scored his latest win – his six in 10 games in Wijk aan Zee – against Dutch grandmaster Anish Giri. Norwegian Magnus Carlsen, Aronian’s main rival, tied with Hikaru Nakamura from the United States.

Grandmaster Levon Aronian will play chess against Armenian inmates, as part of a program announced by the Ministry of Justice Tuesday. Minister of Justice Hrayr Tovmasyan also told journalists that a football tournament for prisoners is being planned.

Armenian team mountaineers have arrived in Tehran to take part in the International Mountaineering Championship to be held there on January 25-28. The team will visit Iran’s Mountain Tourism Federation to get acquainted with the winter conditions of highest peak – Mount Demavend (5,671 meters) prior to the actual competition, Armenian Mountaineering and Mountain Tourism Federation deputy chairman Suren Danielyan told Panorama.am.

Armenian grandmaster Levon Aronian is again a single leader at a major international competition in the Netherlands after scoring a victory in the latest round of play, while seeing his main rival miss a point.

WGM Maria Kursova has won Armenia’s national chess championship among women less than half a year after joining the Armenian chess federation.

Kursova, 26, from Russia, came to Armenia for permanent residence last year after marrying one of the country’s leading grandmasters Arman Pashikyan. She became affiliated with the local chess federation and started to represent Armenia at international competitions beginning last September.

Armenian grandmaster Levon Aronian is still neck and neck with Norwegian Magnus Carlsen at a major international tournament in the Netherlands.

After eight rounds of play in Group A at Wijk aan Zee’s Tata Steel both grandmasters have a joint lead with 5 ½ points each, half a point clear of the closest rival Teymour Radjabov of Azerbaijan.

Armenian grandmaster Levon Aronian retained his joint leadership at a major international tournament in the Netherlands after a draw against Dutch player Loek Van Wely on Thursday.