2024-08-08 04:38:38
The results of the children’s and youth table tennis tournament were summarized in Yerevan. The competition of athletes from Yerevan, Gyumri, Nagorno Karabakh, Vanadzor and other regions of Armenia took place in a rather hot atmosphere.
As reported by the press service of “Chronimet”, the winner of the Junior tournament, Elen Bakhchajyan, received a prize of 250 drams, and the second and third placers, Astghik Gabrielyan and Anahit Simonyan, received 200 and 150 thousand drams. The six participants of the children’s tournament were awarded with gift cards worth 100, 80 and 50 thousand drams. The event was organized by the Table Tennis Federation of Armenia with the financing of the “Chronimet” charitable foundation.
The President of the Armenian Table Tennis Federation, Felix Sargsyan, told reporters.
“The tournament was organized by the “Kronimet” charitable foundation. More than a hundred players participated in the championship. The event created great excitement among the children, they felt that this sport has a future in Armenia.”
The representatives of the “Kronimet” charitable foundation, in their turn, mentioned that similar events will be organized in the near future.
“I really hope that this competition of ours will become traditional. We will hold it every year, and it will be an incentive for the athletes to train better and achieve new successes,” said Anna Sedrakyan, representative of “Chronimet”.
Let us add that this is not the first cooperation between “Chronimet” and the Table Tennis Federation of Armenia. Adequate fund support properties were acquired for the federation as well as improved building conditions.