Best Armenian athletes of the year revealed
Armenia’s Ministry of Education, Science, Culture and Sports has named the best athletes of the year.
The winners have been selected based on the votes of sports journalists accredited by the ministry.
The secret voting involved 18 sports journalists, while the results were summarized by a commission set up by Minister of Education, Science, Culture and Sports Zhanna Andreasyan.
According to the voting results unveiled by Andreasyan on Tuesday, the best athletes of the year in Armenia are wrestler Artur Aleksanyan, gymnast Artur Davtyan and weightlifter Varazdat Lalayan.
Weightlifter Alexandra Grigoryan has been named the best female athlete of the year, while Emma Poghosyan, also a weightlifter, is recognized as the best young athlete. Hakob Serobyan, the head coach of the Armenian national gymnastics team, has been picked as the coach of the year.
Henrikh Mkhitaryan has been selected as the athlete who has most contributed to popularizing Armenia.