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GAVAR, DECEMBER 9, ARMENPRESS: Gegharkunik Governor Nver Poghosyan received today two athletes of the kickboxing sport club of Hatsarat and their coach Derenik Hakobyan.
The athletes participated in European Open Championship of SAFE FIGHT kickboxing held December 1-5 in Moscow. Our boys, registering no defeat during the championship, became champions of Europe and received golden medals. Nver Poghosyan proudly congratulated the coach and athletes for the victory.
Coach Derenik Hakobyan told Armenpress that it is already 3 years that this sport style is treated with seriousness in Hatsarat. Twenty juniors attend the kickboxing club of Hatsarat. The coach said that the winners are 11 years old.
Derenik Hakobyan also stated that the Chairman of the World Kickboxing Federation will arrive in 2011 in Armenia, as the CIS Kickboxing championship is intended to conduct in Armenia.