Armenian Judo Junior Championship to kick off

14:40 - 25 Feb, 2016

The Armenian Judo Junior Championship will be attended by 224 judokas from 23 teams. Among women judokas of 44kg, 48kg, 57kg and 57+ kg weight classes will come out due to the quantity of participants. 

“We have a lot of participants among men although we have set limits. This fact shows that judo is the most popular of the combat sports among these age groups”, Secretary General of Armenian Judo Federation, Davit Khitaryan, said to an ANOC reporter.
After the Championship a team will be formed which after two trainings camps in Abovyan will take part in the European Championship.

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