August 15, 2009 - 18:40 AMT
39 countries to participate in European judo championship in Armenia
39 out of the 50 European Judo Federation member states have already applied to RA Judo Federation for participating in European Youth Judo championship scheduled in Yerevan on September 11-13.

Applications still preliminary character, but their number is expected to increase before deadline which is the 31st of August, RA Judo Federation reported to PanARMENIAN.Net.

Let's note that Turkish and Azerbaijani teams were the first to submit applications for championship. The latter will participate only in male tournament, representing sportsmen at all 8 weights.

So far, applications have been received from the following countries: Albania, Armenia, Austria, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Belgium, Bosnia, Britain, Bulgaria, Croatia, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Estonia, Finland, France, Georgia, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Moldova, Monaco, Montenegro, Holland, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Russia, Serbia, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Turkey and Ukraine.