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    Emil Lazarian
  • 7 years ago
    • Categories: 2019

Sports: Armenian wrestlers win gold, silver on last day of European C’ships

Panorama, Armenia
Sport 16:00 10/06/2019 Armenia

Armenia’s representatives won one gold and one silver medals on the last day of the Freestyle Wrestling Junior European Championship ended in Pontevedra, Spain.

Hrachya Margaryan (61 kg) won the champions’ title of the European Championship while Mher Markosyan (61 kg) became a runner-up, the National Olympic Committee reported.

In the final Hrachya Margaryan defeated Ukrainian Aleksander Yevsienko 11-0, while Mher Markosyan lost to Georgian Miriani Maisuradze 2-3 in a tense struggle.

The Armenian freestyle wrestling youth team left for the European Championship with nine wrestlers and won one gold, one silver and two bronze medals. On June 8 Arman Andreasyan (70 kg) and Arman Avagyan (79 kg) were named bronze medalists.

Harutyun Manukyan (57 kg), Gegham Galstyan (65 kg), Hrayr Alikhanyan (74 kg), Kolya Harutyunyan (97 kg) and Ashot Rushanyan (125 kg) also performed at the championship with the Armenian team.

As reported earlier, the Armenian Greco-Roman wrestling youth team also participated in the championship with nine wrestlers and won one gold, one silver and two bronze medals. Malkhas Amoyan (72 kg) was named European junior champion, Hayk Melikyan (67 kg) became a silver medalist, while Sahak Hovhannisyan (60 kg) and Hrachya Poghosyan (63 kg) won bronze medals.

Emil Lazarian: “I should like to see any power of the world destroy this race, this small tribe of unimportant people, whose wars have all been fought and lost, whose structures have crumbled, literature is unread, music is unheard, and prayers are no more answered. Go ahead, destroy Armenia . See if you can do it. Send them into the desert without bread or water. Burn their homes and churches. Then see if they will not laugh, sing and pray again. For when two of them meet anywhere in the world, see if they will not create a New Armenia.” - WS