Armenian team takes 8th place at European Athletics
Championships
25-06-2009 14:00:00 | Armenia | Sport
YEREVAN, JUNE 25, NOYAN TAPAN. On June 24 the Armenian team
returned home from the 1st European Athletics Team Championships
held in Sarajevo. The 25-member team of Armenia competed with 14
teams in Group 3 and took 8th place.
As was reported previously, long-jumper Vardan Pahlevanian
became the winner with a result of 7.82 meters. Haykanush
Beklarian competed successfully in triple jump: with a result of
13.07 meters she took 2nd place and surpassed her own record of
Armenia by one centimeter. Aram Davtian of the city of Artashat
was third with a result of 1 min 51.97 sec in the 800 meter
running race.