Armenia’s national shooting team achieved remarkable success at the European Running Target Championships held in Châteauroux, France, bringing home gold, silver, and bronze medals; in the men’s 10m running target mixed event, Armenia saw a double podium finish, with Gor Khachatryan becoming European champion with 385 points, Hayk Minasyan securing silver with 383 points, and together with Hovhannes Margaryan, the trio also won the team gold medal; in the women’s individual 10m running target standard event, Arusyak Grigoryan won the bronze medal, scoring 559 points in the qualification round and defeating her Ukrainian opponent 8:6 in the bronze medal match; in the team competition for the women’s 10m running target mixed event, Gohar Harutyunyan, Lilit Mkrtchyan, and Arusyak Grigoryan claimed gold with a total score of 1103 points; in the men’s team event for the 10m running target standard discipline, Gor Khachatryan, Hovhannes Margaryan, and Hayk Minasyan won the team gold medal with 1696 points, while Harutyunyan, Mkrtchyan, and Grigoryan secured the team silver medal in the women’s standard discipline with 1656 points; in the mixed pairs event, Hovhannes Margaryan and Arusyak Grigoryan earned bronze after qualifying for the semifinals with 381 points, losing to Ukraine 4:6 in the semifinal but winning the bronze medal match 8:6; Aida Azatyan won gold in the junior individual 10m running target standard event, with Lilit Mkrtchyan claiming silver, scoring 533 and 528 respectively in qualification, both advancing to semifinals and defeating opponents to reach the final where Azatyan won 7:5; in the junior 10m running target mixed event, Azatyan also won silver with 369 points; a highlight was in the men’s 50m running target standard individual event where Gyumri native Hovhannes Margaryan claimed gold, breaking European and World records; Lilit Mkrtchyan reached the podium for the fourth time, earning bronze in the women’s 50m running target standard event with 572 points (288 slow runs, 284 fast runs), placing behind Finland’s Julianna Ida Heikkilä (581, European record) and Ukraine’s Halyna Avramenko (573).

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