2024-04-14 06:35:26
Today, the European wrestling championship starts in Zagreb, the capital of Croatia. Freestyle wrestlers will compete first.
Manvel Khndzrtsyan (57 kg), Arsen Harutyunyan (61 kg), Vazgen Tevanyan (65 kg), Arman Andreasyan (70 kg), Hrayr Alikhanyan (74 kg), Arman Avagyan ( 79 kg), Mushegh Mkrtchyan (86 kg) and Sergey Sargsyan (97 kg).
Today, the first day of the competition, Armenia will have 5 representatives. Manvel Khndzrtsyan (57 kg) will start the fight in the qualifying round, where he will compete with Bulgarian representative Georgi Vangelov, Vazgen Tevanyan (65 kg) will wrestle with Israeli representative Joshua Stewart Finesilver in the 1/8 finals, Arman Avagyan (79 kg) will meet Mikhail Iliev Gergiev in the same round. Sergey Sargsyan (97 kg) will fight with German Erik Sven Thiele. The other representative of Armenia, 70 kg Arman Andreasyan, will start the fight from the quarter-finals, where he will compete with either a Slovak or a Moldovan wrestler.
The European Championship will last until April 23. After the freestyles, the mat will be given to the Greco-Roman wrestlers.
Rudik Mkrtchyan (55 kg), Gevorg Gharibyan (60 kg), Hrachya Poghosyan (63 kg), Slavik Galstyan (67 kg), Shant Khachatryan (72 kg), Malkhas Amoyan (77) will go to the competition as part of the Greco-Roman wrestling team of Armenia led by Armen Babalaryan. kg), Samvel Grigoryan (82 kg), Vigen Nazaryan (87 kg), Artur Aleksanyan (97 kg) and Davit Ovasapyan (130 kg).