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.

The team of Armenian unarmed self-defense fighters has returned home from the World Junior Championships with a good haul of medals, including one gold, one silver and five bronzes.

The competitions in sambo, a hand-to-hand fighting system popular in former Soviet and Eastern Bloc countries, were held in Riga, Latvia, on October 13-16.

Armenian divers have managed to set a world record in the Northern Hemisphere. They were able to submerge and explore the bottom of an Aragats mountain lake located 3,207 meters above sea level.

Vachik Vardanyan from Armenia has become a European champion in combat sambo, a hand-to-hand fighting system popular in former Soviet and Eastern Bloc countries. According to the Armenian Sambo Federation, Vardanyan showed some great skills at the competitions in Bulgaria at the weekend, winning all fights on the way to the gold medal in his 68-kg division.

Two Armenian judokas have won gold medals at the European Junior Cup in Thessaloniki, Greece.

Andranik Chaparyan (w/c 73kg) and Yerjanik Karapetyan (w/c 48kg) proved best in their divisions.

Three Armenian athletes ended on a high note their performances at an open swimming championship among swimmers with limited movement problems in Russia, winning a total of eight medals during the competitions.

Artak Davtyan, 13, Avag Tonoyan, 15, and Margarita Hovakimyan, 15, represented the Armenian National Disabled Sports Federation (ANDSF) at the competitions in Dzerzhinsk late last week.

Armenians began well at an open swimming championship among sportsmen with limited movement problems in Dzerzhinsk, Russia.

On the first day of competitions on April 6, three athletes representing the Armenian National Disabled Sports Federation (ANDSF) collected four medals, including one gold, two silvers and one bronze, competing in 50-meter freestyle and 100-meter breaststroke.

Team Armenia landed one gold and one silver medal during the first day of competitions at a major international judo tournament in Poland at the weekend.

In the European Judo Union (EJU) World Cup tournament in Warsaw, leading Armenian judoka Armen Nazaryan (wc. 66 kg) beat five opponents, including a Pole in the final, to take the gold.

Young ultimate fighters from Armenia have returned with victories from an Asia Open competition in Iran held earlier this month to tell about their mat experience that also featured bouts against Azeri athletes.

“The psychological and physical preparedness of our fighters helped them become winners. They were inspired and empowered by the victories of each other,” says coach Hayk Ghukasyan, who heads the federation overseeing mixed martial arts, called Armfighting.

The New York Jets (an American professional football team) hoped to win their conference last Sunday and advance to Super Bowl XLV. Confident of beating rival Pittsburgh Steelers, the Jets had boxes of caps and T-shirts pre-printed bearing their name and logo as “Conference Champions”.

Oops. While the T-shirt might lie, the scoreboard (24-19) didn’t – revealing that it will in fact be the Steelers in the mega-sport event February 6.