In the qualifying round, Armenia’s David Safaryan (65 kg) beat with great difficulty Gómez Matos of Puerto Rican but lost to Azerbaijan's Togrul Asgaro at the 1/16 finals.

Armenian chess players have left for Azerbaijan to participate in the World Chess Cup 2015 in Baku.

Armenian Bulgarian soccer specialist Eduard Eranosyan was appointed Head Coach of “Ludogorets”, informs the official website of the football club.

Armenian Greco-Roman wrestlers failed to win a medal on the second day of the Wrestling World Championships underway in Las Vegas, Nevada, USA.

The leadership of Real Madrid Football Club decided to provide 1 million euro to those refugees, who have recently settled in Spain.

Armenian chess player, grandmaster Sergey Movsesyan has performed successfully at Czech Open 2015.

On the first day of European Youth Olympic Festival launched in Tbilisi Armenian athletes didn’t manage to win medals.

Former football player Armen Adamyan has been appointed Head Coach of Yerevan “Mika” FC, press service of the FC informed the sports correspondent of “A1+”.

As a result of it Armenia moved up to the 48th place in the UEFA ranking by surpassing Malta, Wales and the Faroe Islands.

Gyumri’s “Shirak” football players didn’t manage to overcome the barrier of Europa League second qualifying round.

“Tsayg” TV company informs that there was a tense situation in Vardanants Square of Gyumri, when fans of “First Front” from Yerevan and fans of the Swedish FC met each other.

Armenia’s Garik Barseghyan (57 kg), Gor Torosyan (61 kg), Tigran Mnatsakanyan (70 kg), Grigor Grigoryan (74 kg), Musa Martazaliev (86 kg) and Vahe Simonyan (125 kg) took bronze medals and were awarded with $1000 each.

Yesterday Armenian professional boxer, WBO supper middleweight world champion Arthur Abraham and his Coach Ulli Wegner met with his competitor Robert Stieglitz and his coach during the press conference in Halle, Germany.

Sara Carbonero, the wife of Spanish goalkeeper Iker Casillas, has quitted her job to be beside her husband.

Armenia’s champion Pyunik lost to Norwegian champion Molde in the first leg of the Champions League second qualifying round.

At the main tournament from 15 representatives from Armenia GM Hovik Hayrapetyan performed more successfully, who scored 6 points out of 9 possible and with the additional showing took the second prize.

The RA Minister of Sport and Youth Affairs Gabriel Ghazaryan today has attended the final competitions of tournament named after Olympic Games Champion Hrant Shahinyan.

Armenia’s football champion Yerevan “Pyunik” will train in Istanbul for the match with “Molde” at UEFA Champions League second qualifying round.

FC Pyunik beat SS Folgore [2:1] in the return match of Champions League first qualifying round.

Armenian athletes today have won the first medal at ongoing Uiversidate in the South Korea.

Armenian goalkeeper Roman Berezovsky has decided to end his football career, Nevskoe Vremya website reports.

After a short rest Armenian national freestyle wrestling team will start getting ready for the World Championship to be held in September in the USA, Las Vegas. Before the launch of the competition our team will hold trainings in Tsaghkadzor, Russia, Georgia and the USA. The final staff of the team will be known in the middle of August.

To remind, our athletes won just one medal at the First European Games in the person of Greco-Roman style wrestler Mihran Harutyunyan, who took the second prize at 66 kg weight category.

Armenian judo wrestlers failed to win a medal on the first day of European Judo Championship in Baku.