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JAVELIN THROWER JANOYAN AIMING TO PUT ARMENIAN ATHLETICS ON THE MAP IN HELSINKI
European Athletics
http://www.european-athletics.org/european-athletics-championships-2012/10823-javelin-thrower-janoyan-aiming-to-put-armenian-athletics-on-the-map-in-helsinki.html
Feb 22 2012
Armenian javelin thrower Melik Janoyan has been setting a plethora
of national records for the last six years, adding almost 20 metres
to the country's best mark since he first threw over 60 metres in 2005.
His first national record was 61.22m, produced when winning at the
2005 Armenian national championships, and now he stands on the verge
of breaking through the elite 80- metre barrier after going into new
territory again with 79.71m at the Lunev Memorial Meeting, the Russian
Winter Throwing Cup, at the Black Sea venue of Adler on Saturday.
~SI don't feel 80 metres is far away. I would like to do it at the
European Cup Winter Throwing in Montenegro next month,~T said Janoyan,
who finished second in Adler behind the Russia's evergreen 2003 world
champion Sergey Makarov.
The 2012 European Cup Winter Throwing will be in the Montenegrin town
of Bar on 17-18 March.
Further details of the event can be found here.
Janoyan also wants to redeem himself in Bar after he travelled to
last year's event in the Bulgarian capital of Sofia and failed to
register a valid mark. However, he did finish third in the under 23
competition back in 2007 when he rose to the occasion and set the
first of four national records within the space of 10 weeks.
He also hopes to make his mark at this summer's European Athletics
Championships in Helsinki and making the final, after not getting
beyond the qualifying competition at the 2008 Olympic Games and 2009
World Championships.
~SI'm looking forward to Helsinki as I have never been to a European
Athletics Championships and I expect to achieve new successes there,~T
he added.
If Janoyan can be counted among the top 12 javelin throwers in
Helsinki, it would be a milestone for Armenian athletics as no athlete
from the country has made a European Athletics Championships final
since independence was recognised in 1991.
However, there were a number of European Athletics Championships
successes when Armenian athletes wore the vest of the former Soviet
Union, notably the memorable long jump victory of Robert Emmiyan
in 1986.
Emmiyan remains the European long jump record holder with the 8.86m
that he jumped in Tsakhkadzor in 1987 and today he is the president
of the Armenian athletics federation.
European Athletics
http://www.european-athletics.org/european-athletics-championships-2012/10823-javelin-thrower-janoyan-aiming-to-put-armenian-athletics-on-the-map-in-helsinki.html
Feb 22 2012
Armenian javelin thrower Melik Janoyan has been setting a plethora
of national records for the last six years, adding almost 20 metres
to the country's best mark since he first threw over 60 metres in 2005.
His first national record was 61.22m, produced when winning at the
2005 Armenian national championships, and now he stands on the verge
of breaking through the elite 80- metre barrier after going into new
territory again with 79.71m at the Lunev Memorial Meeting, the Russian
Winter Throwing Cup, at the Black Sea venue of Adler on Saturday.
~SI don't feel 80 metres is far away. I would like to do it at the
European Cup Winter Throwing in Montenegro next month,~T said Janoyan,
who finished second in Adler behind the Russia's evergreen 2003 world
champion Sergey Makarov.
The 2012 European Cup Winter Throwing will be in the Montenegrin town
of Bar on 17-18 March.
Further details of the event can be found here.
Janoyan also wants to redeem himself in Bar after he travelled to
last year's event in the Bulgarian capital of Sofia and failed to
register a valid mark. However, he did finish third in the under 23
competition back in 2007 when he rose to the occasion and set the
first of four national records within the space of 10 weeks.
He also hopes to make his mark at this summer's European Athletics
Championships in Helsinki and making the final, after not getting
beyond the qualifying competition at the 2008 Olympic Games and 2009
World Championships.
~SI'm looking forward to Helsinki as I have never been to a European
Athletics Championships and I expect to achieve new successes there,~T
he added.
If Janoyan can be counted among the top 12 javelin throwers in
Helsinki, it would be a milestone for Armenian athletics as no athlete
from the country has made a European Athletics Championships final
since independence was recognised in 1991.
However, there were a number of European Athletics Championships
successes when Armenian athletes wore the vest of the former Soviet
Union, notably the memorable long jump victory of Robert Emmiyan
in 1986.
Emmiyan remains the European long jump record holder with the 8.86m
that he jumped in Tsakhkadzor in 1987 and today he is the president
of the Armenian athletics federation.