2024-04-19 14:44:41
Freestyle wrestler Vazgen Tevanyan shared his impressions with ArmSport after winning the title of the winner of the U23 World Championship.
“It was not possible to win a gold medal at the World Championship for a long time, and I am very happy that it finally happened. I have to work harder to win the senior world championship. I am very happy, but I am already thinking about performing well in the next tournaments and training more,” said Tevanyan.
According to the athlete, he had the most emotional and impressive wrestling match at the U23 National Championship in the semi-finals, where he defeated Kazakh Adlan Askarov with a score of 7:6. “Mixed wrestling worked. The score was tied in the last seconds. I was confident that the final result would be in my favor, but there was a bit of tension anyway.”
To remind, Tevanyan started the fight from 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 Riyoma Anraku of Japan with a score of 4:3, in the semi-finals, he defeated Adlan Askarov of Kazakhstan with a score of 7:6, and in the final, he won a convincing victory over Hamza Alaja of Turkey with a score of 8:4 and was declared the champion.
The young wrestler said that he will rest, recover and return to training in the near future. Next year, the European and World Championships will be held, which will be a ranking for the Paris 2024 Olympic Games, and the long-term plans are related to Paris-2024.
To remind, the Armenian freestyle wrestling team won 2 gold and 1 bronze medals at the U23 World Championship held in Pontevedra, Spain. Vazgen Tevanyan and Arsen Harutyunyan won the title of winner, Arman Avagyan became the bronze medalist.