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    ARMENIAN PRESIDENT AWARDS PRIZES TO WINNERS OF "BEST SPORT-AMATEUR FAMILY" COMPETITION

    ARKA News Agency, Armenia
    July 18 2005

    YEREVAN, July 18. /ARKA/. RA President has awarded prizes to the
    winners of the republican competition "Best sport-amateur family"
    for the RA President's prize. The winners of the competition,
    Hovsepyan family (Armavir region), Sahakyan family (Yerevan), and
    Mikaelyan family (Shirak region), received AMD 500,000, AMD 400,000
    and AMD 300,000 from the President. Kocharyan pointed out that the
    number of the competition participants is rising, and the fund of
    the competition is increased. The President expressed wish that
    the number of participants increase in conformity with the amount of
    funds allocated for the competition and reach several hundred thousand
    people. "There is no losers in this competition, as it is only families
    for which sport is the way of life that win," Kocharyan said.

    In his turn, Chairman of the Committee for Physical Culture and Sport,
    RA Government, Ishkhan Zakharyan pointed out that 83 families from
    11 Armenian regions took part in this year's competition against
    54 last year. He said that only 33 families entered the finals and
    continued struggling for the title of best sport-amateur family in
    six competitions: ball throwing, standing broad jump, rope-pulling,
    cross=country race, relay-race, and weight-lifting exercises. "Twelve
    million drams were allocated for the competition this year due to the
    President's support, whereas only about 1.5mln AMD were allocated last
    year," Zakharyan said. According to him, such competitions contribute
    to sport development in Armenia.

    The President presented all the competition participants aged under
    12 with tracksuits. The smallest participants in the competition,
    6-year-old Aramais Sargsyan and Mariam Beglaryan, who broke the record
    in weight-lifting exercises, received AMD 100,000 bonuses instituted
    by the RA Olympic Committee.

    The competition was organized by the State Committee for Physical
    Culture, RA Government, with the sponsorship of the RA President.P.T.

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