Basketball

Yerevan women’s basketball club Hatis beat Turkish club Besiktas 87-64 in a European Cup game in Istanbul Thursday night. The Armenian club took a first-quarter lead and didn’t falter to dispatch the second-place team in Group F of the International Basketball Federation. Hatis’ win brings its record in league play to 2-1.

Others in Group F that also features Sony Athinaikos (Athens, Greece) and Chevakata (Vologda, Russia). In the two opening games Hatis first lost to the Athens club in an away game and then beat the visiting Russians.

After the latest victory in Istanbul Hatis have practically secured their qualification to the next round of the tournament.

Hatis’s next scheduled game is in Yerevan against Sony Athinaikos on December 3.

Venue: Mika Hall, tipoff time: 5.30 pm.

(Source: Hatis Yervan Basketball Club)

Soccer

Armenia’s women’s team continued their disappointing participation in 2011 World Cup qualification suffering painful defeats in their two latest away qualifiers.

First Armenia lost to Finland 0-7 and then on Wednesday Samvel Adamyan’s charges lost to Italy with an identical score.

Last month Armenia suffered two defeats at home to Italy 0-8 and Slovenia 1-5. The coach has explained the defeats by lack of experience of participation in such tournaments. “We need at least two or three years to change the situation. We view this tournament as a stage to prepare for the upcoming European championships,” Adamyan said in a recent interview.

Armenia are currently bottom in their group that besides the above mentioned teams also includes Portugal.

Also last month, Armenia’s U-17 team lost all games in the group stage of the European qualification tournament with scores more in line with American football - 0-12 to Serbia, 0-19 to Russia, and 0-21 to Spain.

(Source: FFA)

Weightlifting

Armenia’s female weightlifter Nazik Avdalyan (69 kg) on Friday won a gold medal lifting 226 kg in a snatch, clean and jerk combination at the World Weightlifting Championships in Goyang, north of Seoul, South Korea. The 19-year athlete proved unattainable in both events – 119 kg in snatch and 147 kg in clean and jerk. Athletes representing Russia and Macao finished second and third.

Meanwhile, Armenia’s men won two silver medals at the Championships.

Arakel Mirzoyan (69 kg) won a silver medal, lifting 334kg in a snatch, clean and jerk. The winner in the section was China’s Liao Hui, who lifted a total of 346 kg in combination. (Indonesian Triyatno was the third on 330kg).

Tigran G. Martirosyan (77 kg) was also second in his weight category (170kg jerk+200kg clean). Chinese weightlifters Lu Xiaojun won gold (174+204) and Dajin Su (165+200) took bronze, respectively.

The Championships in Goyang end on November 29.

(Source: sportinfo.am)


Chess

Coach Arshak Petrosyan has announced the composition of the Armenian national team, which is going to participate in the World Team Championship (starting on January 3, 2010 in Bursa, Turkey). Levon Aronyan, Vladimir Hakobyan, Gabriel Sargsyan, Arman Pashikyan, Tigran L. Petrosyan, Zaven Andriasyan (according to the boards) will play in the championship.

(Source: armchess.am)