Gurgen Hovhannisyan (right) in a match with Turkey’s Ilyas Muchahit
Armenian boxer Gurgen Hovhannisyan (+91 kg) beat his Turkish opponent Ilyas Muchahit during the European boxing championship games being held in Minsk, Belarus.
Hovhannisyan celebrated a 3 to 2 victory over his opponent and reached the quarterfinals, the National Olympic Committee reported.
The Armenian athlete had started performing from the semi-finals where he had defeated Bosnia-Herzegovina’s Veletik Dusan 3-2.
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