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  • Olympic Champion Vladimir Yengibaryan Passed Away

    OLYMPIC CHAMPION VLADIMIR YENGIBARYAN PASSED AWAY

    12:00, 1 February, 2013

    YEREVAN, FEBRUARY 1, ARMENPRESS: Melbourne Olympic Games champion
    Vladimir Yengibaryan died. As National Olympic Committee of Armenia
    informed Armenpress, our compatriot, Melbourne Olympic Games champion,
    81, triple European champion and Honored Master of Sports of the USSR
    passed away on February 1, in Los Angeles.

    He was born on April 24, 1932 in Yerevan, Armenia. He founded the
    first in the USSR boxing Children and Youth Sport School in Yerevan
    in 1959. He chaired the school till 1995 the year he moved to the
    United States.Former welterweight boxer has been awarded to highest
    awards by the President of the Republic of Armenai Serzh Sargsyan
    and NKR President Bako SAhakyan in 2009.

    National Olympic Committee of Armenia is scheduled to serve a burial
    ceremony in St. Sargis Church. The funeral is will be hosted in the
    United States.

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