2023-06-29 12:53:10
The youth Greco-Roman wrestling team won 1 gold, 2 silver and 2 bronze medals at the European U20 Championship held in Spain. In the team calculation, the Armenian national team took the 4th place, reports the Ministry of the Ministry of Education and Culture.
Yesterday, Suren Aghajanyan wrestled 60 kg for the gold medal from the representatives of Armenia. He measured his strength with Anri Khozrevanidze representing Georgia and suffered a painful defeat with a score of 1:6, settling for the silver medal.
Aghajanyan started the fight from the 1/8 finals, where he won 8:0 against the representative of Israel, in the quarterfinals, the Armenian wrestler defeated the Ukrainian Danil Bitka with a score of 8:3, and in the semi-finals, he was stronger than the representative of Poland with a score of 8:1.
Another representative of Armenia, Gaspar Terteryan (67 kg), won a bronze medal, winning an impressive 5-4 victory over the representative of France, Magomed Gatagaev.
Terteryan started the fight from the qualifying stage, where he won 5:0 against the representative of Romania, won 8:0 against the Czech wrestler in the round of 16, won 7:1 against the representative of Finland in the quarterfinals, and 2 in the semi-finals. The Turkish wrestler lost by 3 points.
Earlier, Yurik Hoveyan (63 kg) was recognized as the winner of the European Youth Wrestling Championship, Vigen Nazaryan (87 kg) won the silver medal, and Homeros Arakelyan (55 kg) won the bronze medal.
Let’s remind: Ashot Khachatryan (72 kg), Vahe Hovhannisyan (77 kg), Ruben Gevorgyan (82 kg), Arshak Geghamyan (97 kg) and Aramais Harutyunyan (130 kg) also went to the competition as part of the Armenian Greco-Roman wrestling team. however, were left out of the medals. The team participated in the championship under the leadership of coaches Movses Karapetyan, Armen Arakelyan, Tigran Sahakyan and Zhora Vardanyan.
From June 30, mats will be provided to freestyle wrestlers. Harutyun Hovhannisyan (57 kg), Levik Mikayelyan (61 kg), Andranik Avetisyan (65 kg), Davit Margaryan (70 kg), Hayk Papikyan (74 kg), Narek Grigoryan (79) will participate in the European Youth Championship as part of the Armenian freestyle wrestling team. kg), Mushegh Mkrtchyan (86 kg), Knyaz Ibroyan (92 kg) and Gurgen Simonyan (97 kg).
The young freestylers will participate in the European Championship under the leadership of coaches Avetik Vardanyan, Armen Malkhasyan, Hakob Avetisyan and Karapet Yengoyan.
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