Maksim Manukyan – silver medalist

The second Olympic Qualifying tournament has kicked off in Ulan Bator, Mongolia, reports press service of the National Olympic Committee of Armenia (NOCA).

According to the source, Greco-Roman wrestlers measured their strengths on April 22. Roman Amoyan (59kg) lost 4:7 to Iranian Hamid Suryan and dropped out of the competition from the first bout.

Arsen Julfalakyan (75kg) lost 0:7 to Hungary’s Peter Bachi in the qualification round, the last one reach the finals letting Julfalakyan continue the fight for the third place and a qualification. The Armenian wrestler won confidently in the comforting bouts and will compete against a Romanian athlete for the first place.

NOCA further reports that Maksim Manukyan at 85kg defeated a Greek wrestler in the first bout and then gained advantage over (6:4) Czech Artur Omarov. In the quarter-finals the Armenian wrestler defeated an Austrian opponent and qualified for the semi-finals where he competed with Germany’s Ramsin Azizsi. After a tense and tough fight the Armenian wrestler won 12:4 the opponent and reached the finals.

Edgar Khachatryan (130kg) defeated his Indian opponent in the first bout but lost to Belarus’ representative Ioseb Chugoshvili.