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Culture & sport

Sargis Stepanyan becomes para-armwrestling world champion for fifth time

First reported by 24news.am: Yesterday, 19:40

Updated 19:20, 22 sources

Culture & sport. Photo: Sargis Stepanyan Facebook page, cropped
Photo: Sargis Stepanyan Facebook page, cropped

Sargis Stepanyan won the champion's title in the up to 80 kg weight category, seated sport classification, at the 28th World Para-Armwrestling Championship underway in New Delhi. On his Facebook page, the athlete said this is his fifth world champion title and dedicated the victory to his father on the occasion of his birthday. Stepanyan lost his legs and an arm as a result of a wound sustained during combat operations in 2014.

Coverage timeline

Who reported first and how the others caught up. Each bar shows how many of that side's outlets covered the story.

First to report: 24news.am · 19:40 · Opposition

Pro-government 1 / 6 First: Public TV news (H1 / Lurer), 22 min later
Balanced 8 / 13 First: Ararat News, 1 h 1 min later
Opposition 12 / 21 First: 24news.am, 19:40

Foreign outlets: 1, first: Sputnik Armenia, 20:04

Timeline as a list
  1. 24news.am (Opposition)
  2. Armlur / Joghovurd (Opposition)
  3. Past / Pastinfo (Opposition)
  4. 5th Channel (Opposition)
  5. News.am (Opposition)
  6. Alphanews.am (Opposition)
  7. Public TV news (H1 / Lurer) (Pro-government)
  8. Sputnik Armenia (Foreign)
  9. Tert.am (Opposition)
  10. Panorama (Opposition)
  11. Oragir.news (Opposition)
  12. Ararat News (Balanced)
  13. Yerevan.Today (Opposition)
  14. Mamul.am (Balanced)
  15. Shant TV / Shantnews (Balanced)
  16. Infocom (Balanced)
  17. Factor (Balanced)
  18. Aravot (Balanced)
  19. Azg (Opposition)
  20. 1in.am (Balanced)
  21. Radar Armenia (Balanced)
  22. Politik.am (Opposition)

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