2024-04-21 01:54:39
The Armenian freestyle wrestling team won 2 gold and 1 bronze medals at the U23 World Championship in Pontevedra, Spain.
Vazgen Tevanyan and Arsen Harutyunyan won the title of the winner of the World Youth Championship, Arman Avagyan became the bronze medalist.
Two-time European champion, two-time world bronze medalist, 61 kg Arsen Harutyunyan won a gold medal, winning the final with a score of 7:5 over Kyrgyz representative Tayirbek Zhumashbek. Harutyunyan started the fight in the qualifying round, where he defeated the representative of Egypt with a score of 10:0, in the 1/8 finals, the Armenian wrestler had a brilliant victory with a score of 11:0 over the representative of Puerto Rico, Joseph Andres Silva, in the quarterfinals, Kazakh Asil won with a score of 9:3. over Aitakin, and in the semi-finals he won 13:4 against the representative of Georgia, Ramaz Turmanidze.
Arsen Harutyunyan was declared world champion under 23 for the second time. The last time he won this title was in the championship held in Belgrade in 2021.
Vazgen Tevanyan won the 65 kg final with a score of 8:4 over Turkish Hamza Alaja and was declared the champion. Tevanyan started the fight in the 1/16 finals, where he won 10:0 over Canadian Daniel Troy Coles. In the 1/8 finals, he won by the same score over the English wrestler. In the quarter-finals, the representative of Armenia defeated Ryoma Anraku of Japan with a score of 4:3, and in the semi-finals, he defeated Adlan Askarov of Kazakhstan with a score of 7:6.
The other representative of Armenia, 79 kg Arman Avagyan, won a bronze medal, winning a difficult 5:4 victory over Greek Georgios Kougiumtsidis in the decisive wrestling match.
To remind, the freestyle team included Manvel Khndzrtsyan (57 kg), Arman Andreasyan (70 kg), Hrayr Alikhanyan (74 kg), Knyaz Iboyan (86 kg), Sergey Sargsyan (92 kg) and Hovhannes Maghakyan (97 kg). which were left out of the medals.
The Greco-Roman wrestling team had earlier won 1 gold, 1 silver and 1 bronze medal at the U23 World Championship. Malkhas Amoyan, weighing 77 kg, won the title of winner, Gevorg Tadevosyan, weighing 87 kg, won the silver medal, and Hrachya Poghosyan, weighing 63 kg, took the third place on the podium.