Pan-Armenian Games

Multi-sport event, held between competitors from the Armenian diaspora and Armenia

Not to be confused with Pan American Games.

Pan Armenian Games
Համահայկական խաղեր

Flag of the Pan-Armenian Games

First event| 1999
Yerevan
Occur every| Four years (formerly two years)
Last event| 2023
Purpose| Multi-sport event for Armenian diaspora and Armenia.
Headquarters| Yerevan
Chairman of the World Committee| Ishkhan Zakaryan
Website| panarmeniangames.am

The Pan-Armenian Games (Armenian: Համահայկական խաղեր, romanized: Hamahaykakan khagher) are a multi-sport event, held between competitors from the Armenian diaspora and Armenia. They consist of various competitions in individual and team sports among the Armenian athletes. It takes place in Yerevan, the capital of Armenia.

## Eligibility

[edit]

The games are open to Armenian passport-holders (irrespective of national origin) and citizens of other countries who have Armenian descent. Spouses of those of Armenian descent are also eligible to compete.[1]

## History

[edit]

The idea of holding Pan-Armenian Games came from Soviet diplomat Ashot Melik-Shahnazaryan, who first thought of the idea of organizing universal games for all Armenians while he was on a business trip in 1965 to Brazzaville, Republic of Congo, that was getting ready to participate in the first Pan-African Games. But because Armenia was a Soviet republic and that such an idea was considered by Moscow to be nationalistic, Shahnazaryan had to wait until Armenia attained independence to try to put forth his brainchild.[citation needed]

In 1995, Melik-Shahnazaryan for the first time publicly announced his intentions to create the Pan-Armenians Games while he was in Paris as a guest for World Games of AGBU. He quickly gained the support of the Armenian diaspora with whom he did not have any contact during Soviet times. The idea of organizing sporting events for all Armenians and the motto of the future World Committee "Unity through Sport" was highly supported by representatives of Homenetmen, AGBU and Homenmen in diasporan cities such as Los Angeles, Toronto, Montreal, Buenos Aires, Beirut, Paris, London and many others.

During the founding meeting on 30 April 1997, in Yerevan, World Committee of Pan-Armenian Games (WCPAG) was created, with the help of traditional Armenian unions of the Diaspora and the Iranian-Armenian cultural-sport organization "Ararat". Representatives of state and public organizations of Armenia, Artsakh and also Armenian communities from Iran, Argentina, Turkey, Australia, Germany, Canada, Cyprus, France and other countries became members. Ashot Melik-Shahnazaryan was elected the first president of WCPAG. He also became the creator of the emblem, cup, medals, almost all the symbols of the organization and also the official anthem and the farewell song of the games.

Today, the WCPAG is a non-governmental, international organization that collaborates with the International Olympic Committee (IOC), UNESCO, the Council of Europe and other international sport units and contributes in developing sport in Armenia.

## The Games

[edit]

The Pan-Armenian Games are complex competitions in individual and team kinds of sport among athletes of Armenia and athletes of Armenian origin from other countries. The athletes from various parts of the world represent the cities in which they come from and not countries like other pan-games. The Pan-Armenian Games take place mainly in Yerevan, Armenia. The sports played during the games are football, mini-football, basketball, volleyball, swimming, badminton, tennis, table tennis, chess, and athletics.

The first Pan-Armenian Games took place from 28 August 1999 to 5 September 1999. Delegations from 62 cities and 23 countries participated in the games.

In 2003, it was decided to transform the games into once every four years (instead of once every two years).[citation needed]

The Games are mostly held in Yerevan, Armenia. However, the opening ceremony of the 7th Pan-Armenian Games was hosted for the first time in Stepanakert, the capital of the Republic of Artsakh in August 2019.[2]

The opening ceremony of the 8th Pan-Armenian Games in August 2023 were held at the Shirak Stadium in the city of Gyumri.[3]

| Year | Date | Sports | Athletes | Cities (Countries)

|
|
|
|
|

I[4] | 1999 | 28 August–5 September | 7 | 1141 | 63 (23)
II[5] | 2001 | 18–26 August | 9 | 1419 | 82 (27)
III[6] | 2003 | 16–24 August | 10 | 1559 | 82 (28)
IV[7] | 2007 | 18–26 August | 10 | 1576 | 94 (28)
V[8] | 2011 | 13–21 August | 10 | 3244 | 125 (33)
VI[9] | 2015 | 2–13 August | 17  | 6352 | 175 (35)
VII[10] | 2019 | 6–17 August | 17  | 5300 | 161 (35)[11]
VIII[12] | 2023 | 5–19 August | 17  | 7161 | 179 (41)[3]
IX | 2027 | TBD | TBD | TBD | TBD

## Sports

[edit]

Source:[13][14][15][16]

### Summer

[edit]

1. 1999: 1141 athletes - 63 cities (529 from Armenia, 612 from the Diaspora). 7 sports: Football, basketball, volleyball, tennis, table-tennis, chess, and athletics.
2. 2001: 1419 athletes - 82 cities (464 from Armenia, 955 from the Diaspora). 9 sports: Football, basketball, volleyball, tennis, table- tennis, chess, athletics, swimming, and mini-football.
3. 2003: 1559 athletes - 82 cities (423 from Armenia, 1136 from the Diaspora). 10 sports: Football, basketball, volleyball, tennis, table-tennis, chess, athletics, swimming, mini-football, and badminton.
4. 2007: 1576 athletes - 28 cities (425 from Armenia, 1151 from the Diaspora). 10 sports: Football, basketball, volleyball, tennis, table-tennis, chess, athletics, swimming, mini-football, and badminton.
5. 2011: 3244 athletes - 125 cities (1372 from Armenia, 1872 from the Diaspora). 10 sports: Football, basketball, volleyball, tennis, table-tennis, chess, athletics, swimming, mini-football and badminton.
6. 2015: 6,352 athletes - 175 cities. 17 sports: Football, basketball, volleyball, tennis, table- tennis, chess, athletics, swimming, mini-football, badminton, beach-volleyball, sports dances, golf, handball, wrestling, cycling, and shooting.
7. 2023: 107 medals in 17 sports.

### Winter Games

[edit]

1. 2014: 401 athletes - 22 cities (193 from Armenia, 208 from the Diaspora). 4 sports: Alpine skiing, skiing, snowboarding, and ice hockey.

## Participating nations

[edit]

Delegations are represented by country of residence, and participants from the same country march together during the opening ceremonies. Delegations from countries which have participated in the games have come from the following:[17][18]

* Armenia
* Argentina
* Australia
* Austria
* Brazil
* Bulgaria
* Canada
* Chile
* Cyprus
* Czechia
* Egypt
* Estonia
* France
* Georgia
* Germany
* Great Britain
* Greece
* India
* Iran
* Iraq
* Israel
* Italy
* Jordan
* Kazakhstan
* Kuwait
* Lebanon
* Netherlands
* Poland
* Russia
* Saudi Arabia
* Singapore
* Spain
* Sweden
* Syria
* Turkey
* UAE
* Ukraine
* USA

## The medals won by cities (Top 5)

[edit]

The medals won by cities

City | Gold | Silver | Bronze | Total

|
|
|
|

Yerevan | 51 | 42 | 47 | 140
Gyumri | 15 | 12 | 19 | 46
Vanadzor | 6 | 8 | 4 | 18
Stepanakert | 5 | 4 | 6 | 15
Tbilisi | 4 | 2 | 2 | 8
Total | 114 | 113 | 114 | 341

## See also

[edit]

* Sports portal

* Armenia at the Olympics
* Armenian Olympic Committee
* List of multi-sport events
* Sport in Armenia

## Notes

[edit]

1. ^ "Pan-Armenian Games - regulations". Archived from the original on July 6, 2011.
2. ^ "Opening Ceremony of 7th Pan-Armenian Games Will be Held in Artsakh". 11 February 2023.
3. ^ a b "Opening Ceremony of 8th Pan-Armenian Games Held in Gyumri • MassisPost". August 6, 2023.
4. ^ "Ամառային առաջին խաղեր - Համահայկական Խաղեր". Archived from the original on 27 July 2015. Retrieved 3 August 2015.
5. ^ "Ամառային երկրորդ խաղեր - Համահայկական Խաղեր". Archived from the original on 25 June 2015. Retrieved 3 August 2015.
6. ^ "Ամառային երրորդ խաղեր - Համահայկական Խաղեր". Archived from the original on 25 June 2015. Retrieved 3 August 2015.
7. ^ "Ամառային չորրորդ խաղեր - Համահայկական Խաղեր". Archived from the original on 24 June 2015. Retrieved 3 August 2015.
8. ^ "Ամառային հինգերորդ խաղեր - Համահայկական Խաղեր". Archived from the original on 16 August 2015. Retrieved 3 August 2015.
9. ^ "ՀԽՀԿ Գլխավոր ասամբլեան ամփոփել է Համահայկական ամառային 6-րդ խաղերի արդյունքները". Archived from the original on 22 December 2015. Retrieved 3 August 2015.
10. ^ "Opening Ceremony of 7th Pan-Armenian Games". Retrieved 30 May 2019.
11. ^ "Armenian PM lists impressive long-term development goals at opening of Pan-Armenian games". 6 August 2019. Retrieved 6 August 2019.
12. ^ "PM attends 7th Pan-Armenian Summer Games closing ceremony". Retrieved 17 October 2019.
13. ^ "ABOUT US - ՀԱՄԱՀԱՅԿԱԿԱՆ ԽԱՂԵՐԻ ՀԱՄԱՇԽԱՐՀԱՅԻՆ ԿՈՄԻՏԵ". December 10, 2019.
14. ^ "Հ.Մ.Ը.Մ. - Հայ Մարմնակրթական Ընդհանուր Միութիւն - Պաշտօնական Կայք". www.homenetmen.org.
15. ^ "First Pan-Armenian Winter Games". tsaghkahovit.am.
16. ^ LLC, Helix Consulting. "Pan-Armenian Games should be the best indicator to show our unity. Arayik Harutyunyan". www.gov.am.
17. ^ "Համահայկական ամառային 7-րդ խաղերի մարզական շքերթ (ամփոփ)". 16 December 2019 - via www.youtube.com.
18. ^ "ՈՒՂԻՂ. Համահայկական խաղերի բացումը՝ Գյումրիում". 5 August 2023 - via www.youtube.com.

* v
* t
* e

Multi-sport events

Global

Olympic Games|

* Olympic Games
* Summer
* Winter
* Paralympic Games
* Summer
* Winter
* Youth Olympic Games

Parasports|

* Arafura Games
* Deaflympics
* Summer
* Winter
* Défi sportif
* IBSA World Games
* INAS Global Games
* Invictus Games
* World Dwarf Games
* Special Olympics
* Summer
* Winter
* World Abilitysport Games

Professions|

* International Army Games
* Lumberjack World Championship
* Military World Games
* World Air Games
* World Firefighters Games
* World Police and Fire Games

Youth and students|

* FISU World University Games (Universiade)
* World School Sport Games (Gymnasiade)
* International Youth Green Games
* International Children's Games
* SELL Student Games
* World Interuniversity Games
* Commonwealth Youth Games
* CPLP Games
* University International Sports Festival

Intercommunity|

* Arab Games
* BRICS Games
* Commonwealth Games
* Croatian World Games
* Gay Games
* Highland games
* Islamic Solidarity Games
* Jeux de la Francophonie
* Lusofonia Games
* Maccabiah Games
* Pan-Armenian Games
* World Transplant Games
* World Eskimo Indian Olympics
* World Indigenous Games
* World Polonia Games

Other|

* CSIT World Sports Games
* Dew Tour
* Mind Sports Olympiad
* UCI Cycling World Championships
* World Beach Games
* World Combat Games
* World Games
* World Masters Games
* World Mind Games
* World Nomad Games
* World Skate Games
* World Urban Games
* X Games

Regional

Africa|

* African Games
* African Para Games
* African Youth Games
* All-Africa University Games
* West African University Games

Americas|

* Pan American
* Pan American Games
* Parapan American Games
* Junior Pan American Games
* Americas Masters Games
* Central American and the Caribbean
* Central American and Caribbean Games
* Central American Games
* Latin American
* ALBA Games
* Bolivarian Games
* North American
* CANUSA Games
* North American Indigenous Games
* North American Outgames
* South American
* South American Games
* South American Beach Games
* South American University Games
* South American Youth Games
* Caribbean
* Caribbean Games

Asia|

* Pan Asian
* Asian Games
* Summer
* Winter
* Asian Para Games
* Asian Beach Games
* Asian Indoor and Martial Arts Games
* Asian Youth Games
* Southeast Asian
* SEA Games
* ASEAN School Games
* ASEAN University Games
* ASEAN Para Games
* Central Asian Games
* East Asian Youth Games
* South Asian Games
* West Asian Games1

Europe|

* Black Sea Games1
* European Games
* European Masters Games
* European Championships
* European Para Championships
* European Para Youth Games
* European Youth Olympic Festival
* EuroGames
* European Universities Championships
* European Universities Games
* Games of the Small States of Europe
* International Erasmus Games

Oceania|

* Australian Youth Olympic Festival
* Micronesian Games
* Pacific Games
* Pacific Mini Games
* Arafura Games

Intercontinental|

* Arab Games
* Arctic Winter Games
* Asia Pacific Deaf Games
* Asia Pacific Masters Games
* Isles
* Indian Ocean Island Games
* Island Games
* Jeux des îles
* Mediterranean Games

National

Americas|

* Canada
* British Columbia
* Ontario
* Quebec
* Saskatchewan
* Western
* Colombia
* United States
* amateur juniors
* seniors
* Warrior Games

NCSG,
United States3|

* Alabama
* California
* Florida
* Massachusetts
* Missouri
* Montana
* Nebraska
* New York
* North Carolina
* Lakota Nation
* Texas
* Wisconsin

Asia|

* Bangladesh
* China
* All-China Games
* National Games
* National Peasants' Games
* National Youth Games
* India
* Youth
* University
* Indonesia
* Japan
* Malaysia
* Mongolia
* Nepal
* Pakistan
* Philippines
* National Games
* Para Games
* Student
* Youth
* Singapore
* South Korea
* Summer
* Winter
* Thailand
* Youth
* Vietnam
* Taiwan
* National Games (Taiwan)

Europe|

* Poland (youth)
* WheelPower

Historical1

Pre-Modern Olympics
(in order, from 1900 BC to 1859 AD)|

* Tailteann Games (ancient)
* Panhellenic Games
* Ancient Olympic Games
* Pythian Games
* Nemean Games
* Isthmian Games
* Heraean Games
* Panathenaic Games
* Roman Games
* Cotswold Olimpick Games
* Gog Magog Games
* Wenlock Olympian Society Annual Games
* Zappas Olympics

Alternatives to the
Modern Olympics|

* Aryan Games
* Friendship Games
* GANEFO
* Goodwill Games
* Inter-Allied Games
* Islamic Games
* Liberty Bell Classic
* People's Olympiad
* Workers' Olympiads
* Spartakiad

Defunct regional or
community events|

* Afro-Asian Games
* Asian Indoor Games
* Asian Martial Arts Games
* Baltic Sea Games
* Black Sea Games
* Central African Games
* East Asian Games
* Far Eastern Championship Games
* FESPIC Games
* Games of the New Emerging Forces
* Pacific Ocean Games
* Spartakiad of the Peoples of the USSR
* Tailteann Games (modern)
* West African Games
* Women's Islamic Games
* World Youth Games
* IWAS World Games
* Cerebral Palsy Games
* South African Games
* North Dakota
* Netherlands
* Spartakiad of Albania
* Spartakiad of the Peoples of the USSR
* youth

Winter sports

International|

* Olympics
* Paralympics
* Winter University Games
* FIS Games
* Nordic Games1
* Commonwealth1
* World Scout
* Arctic Winter Games
* Kennedy Memorial1
* New Zealand Winter Games
* Winter World Masters Games

Regional|

* National Winter Games of China
* Asian Winter Games
* European Youth Olympic Festival
* Winter X Games Europe
* Russian–Chinese Winter Youth Games

* 1 Defunct
* 2 Sub-national
* 3 51 component games in 36 U.S. states

* Category
* List
* WikiProject

* v
* t
* e

Armenian diaspora

* Population by country
* historical
* Population by urban area
* Ethnic enclaves

Historic areas of
Armenian settlement|

* Azerbaijan (Nagorno-Karabakh)
* Javakhk
* Nakhichevan
* Turkey
* Bolis/Istanbul
* Cilicia
* Hidden Armenians
* Western Armenia

Caucasus|

* Azerbaijan
* Baku
* Zoks
* Georgia
* Abkhazia
* Tbilisi

Former Soviet Union|

* Baltic states
* Lithuania
* Belarus
* Central Asia
* Moldova
* Russia
* Circassia
* Ukraine
* Crimea

Americas|

* Argentina
* Brazil
* Canada
* Mexico
* United States
* Los Angeles
* San Francisco
* Boston
* Uruguay

Europe|

* Austria
* Belgium
* Bulgaria
* Cyprus
* Czech Republic
* France
* Germany
* Greece
* Hayhurum
* Hungary
* Italy
* Malta
* The Netherlands
* North Macedonia
* Poland
* Romania
* Serbia
* Spain
* Sweden
* Switzerland
* United Kingdom

Middle East|

* Egypt
* Iran
* Iraq
* Israel
* Jordan
* Kuwait
* Lebanon
* Qatar
* Syria
* United Arab Emirates

Asia|

* Afghanistan
* Bangladesh
* China
* India
* Indonesia
* Surabaya
* Myanmar
* Pakistan
* Singapore

Africa|

* Ethiopia

Oceania|

* Australia
* New Zealand

*[v]: View this template
*[t]: Discuss this template
*[e]: Edit this template