Wrestler Sergey Simonyan – bronze medalist of the Junior World Championship
The Junior World Wrestling Championship has kicked off in Macon, France. On the first day of competition Greco-Roman wrestlers Sergey Simonyan (50kg), Gevorg Khumaryan (60kg) and Arman Baghdasaryan (74kg) competed. National Olympic Committee of Armenia (ANOC) reports.
According to the source, in the first bout Simonyan (50kg) gave no chance to Azerbaijani Ziyad Zeynalov (8:0). In the quarter-finals the Armenian wrestler won an Italian athlete and qualified for the semifinals where he lost to Russian Vladislav Melnikov 4:8. In the bout for the bronze medal Simonyan won Kirgiz Adilet Taalaibekov 2:1.
Gevorg Khumaryan at 60kg won Uzbekistan’s representative in the first bout but couldn’t overcome a Ukrainian wrestler and dropped out of the further competition.
Arman Baghdasaryan (74kg) lost the first bout 2:5 to Romanian George Mariea who reached the final giving opportunity to the Armenian athlete to fight against a Turk wrestler in the repechage. Unfortunately, Baghdasaryan lost.
On August 31st wrestlers of 55kg, 66kg, 84kg and 120kg weight classes will meet on the mat