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The team from Tehran has won the yukigassen tournament at the 2nd Pan-Armenian Winter Games in Jermuk.
The Tehran team is competing in alpine skiing, snowboarding and yukigassen (snowball fighting).
Henrik Khaloyan, a member of the Pan-Armenian Games World Committee and representative of Iran, told Armenpress that the idea of unity behind the games is highly important.
“Youth and sportsmanship are united here,” he said.
“The difficulty of the winter games is that now it is the active academic year season and the members of Armenian unions can’t skip it,” he added.
The number of participants this year is three times more than during the first games.
Aramazd Babayan, the yukigassen coach of the Tehran team, likewise attached importance to the unifying nature of the event. He said that the tournament is a good opportunity for Diaspora-Armenians to connect with each other.
The local team from Jermuk as well as the Khoy team from Armavir region were the runners-up in the yukigassen event.