Armenia at the 2008 Summer Olympics

Infobox Olympics Armenia
games=2008 Summer
competitors= 25 in 7 sports [fr icon [http://www.armenews.com/article.php3?id_article=42611 25 sportifs seront engagés sous les couleurs de l’Arménie aux Jeux Olympiques de Pékin] ]
sports=
flagbearer=Albert Azaryan [ [http://www.panorama.am/en/sport/2008/08/06/olimpiada/ Albert Azaryan – Armenian flag bearer in Olympics] ]
officials=
gold=
silver=
bronze=6
rank=79

Armenia competed in the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, China. A team of 25 athletes, consisting of 9 wrestlers, 6 weightlifters, 4 boxers, 2 athletes, 2 judokas, 1 sport shooter and 1 swimmer was selected. With a total of six bronze medals, Armenia won more medals than in all previous Olympic Games combined. [ [http://www.armnoc.am/index.php?section=events Results of Armenian athletes in Olympic Games.] ]

Medalists

Boxing

Armenia had four boxers qualify for the Olympics. Javakhyan and Hambardzumyan qualified in their weight classes at the World Boxing Championships. [http://www.aiba.org/documents/site1/World%20Championships/2007/2008%20Olympic%20Qualified%20Boxers.pdf World Boxing Championships Chicago 2007] ] . Hakobyan qualified in the middleweight at the first European qualifying tournament. [http://www.roseto2008.com/ 1st AIBA European Olympic Qualifying Tournament] ]

Swimming

Wrestling

Men's Freestyle

Men's Greco-Roman

References

External links

* [http://www.armnoc.am/ National Olympics Committee of Armenia website]
* [http://www.panorama.am/en/sport/2008/07/07/pekin/ 25 ARMENIAN SPORTSMEN IN “BEIJING 2008”]
* [http://boxing.about.com/od/amateurs/a/oly_schedule.htm]