WRESTLER GOR OF TURKEY WINS SILVER MEDAL
Turkish Press
March 20 2013
Yakup Gor of Turkey won silver medal in European Wrestling
Championships in Georgia on Tuesday.
Gor was defeated by his Armenian rival David Safarian 2-0 in free
style, and won silver medal in the championships.
The championships took place in Tbilisi Sport Palace.
In all, 14 gold medals are on offer for men and seven gold medals
are on offer for women competitors.
It was the first time for Georgia to host the European Wrestling
Championships and it was also the biggest ever sporting event held
in the South Caucasus country since its independence.
Georgian Prime Minister Bidzina Ivanishvili is the patron of this
year’s European championships which feature men’s freestyle and
Greco-Roman style and women’s wrestling.
Georgia, a traditional nation of wrestling, collected one gold, three
silver and two bronze medals from last year’s European championships.
Russia finished atop all participating countries at last year’s
championships with five gold, two silver and eight bronze medals,
followed by Ukraine with a medal tally of four gold, as many silver
and three bronze.
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