  Smbat Margaryan wins European Weightlifting Championships silverReview of April 1-8 sports events. Weightlifting: Armenia’s Smbat Margaryan, 17, (w/c 56kg) won the jerk gold at the European Weightlifting Championships going on in Minsk, Belarus. In snatch, clean and jerk combination, Margaryan won the silver medal, lifting 225 kg. The champion’s title went to Belarus’ Vitaly Derbenev. Arsen Tarmazyan, representing Russia, came 9th. On April 8, World Weightlifting Championships silver winner and Olympic Games bronze winner Tigran Martirosyan (w/c 77kg) entered the filed.  April 11, 2010PanARMENIAN.Net - > Boxing: Six Armenian boxers – Koryun Soghomonyan (w/c 48kg), Narek Abgaryan (w/c 51kg), Artur Kirajyan (w/c 54kg), Karen Tonakanyan (w/c 57kg), Hrayr Matevosyan (w/c 60kg) and Hovhannes Bachkov (w/c 64kg) will represent Armenia at the Youth Boxing Championships to be held in Baku, Azerbaijan, from April 20 to May 2. * Yerevan International Boxing Tournament, which brought together 113 boxers from 9 national teams from Armenia, Belarus, Bulgaria, Georgia, Iran, Kazakhstan, Moldova, Russia and Ukraine, kicked off on April 6. 8 Armenian boxers – Karen Aylazyan, Manvel Sargsyan (both w/c 54kg), Ara Puluzyan (w/c 60kg), Andranik Hakobyan (w/c 75kg), Tigran Armenakyan (w/c 75kg), Tsolak Ananikyan (w/c 91kg), Bagrat and Hovhannes Ohanyans (w/c +91kg) - will participate in the semi-finals. Chess: 5 Armenian chess players are participating in International Open Dubai Championship. After 3 rounds, Tigran Kotanjyan in the 2nd while Hrant Melkumyan is the 4th in the standings. * Armenian national chess team are preparing for the Olympiad to take place in Khanty-Mansiysk from September 19 to October 4. Football: In the second-round matches of the Armenian Soccer Championship Mika were defeated by Pyunik 2:4 while Ulysses scored a 1:0 victory over Gandzasar. Swimming: David Hambardzumyan’s sports school will host Open Armenian Swimming Championship on April 21-23, with 120 swimmers from around Armenia participating. “Sportsmen of different age categories will be competing in all swimming disciplines,” Armenian Swimming Federation president Igor Safaryan told a PanARMENIAN.Net reporter. Upon championship completion, Armenian swimmers will participate in European Championship as well as 2010 World Swimming Championship in Dubai.
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