FIVE DEFEATS IN THE FINALS

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02:27 pm | June 10, 2009

Sports

A wrestling tournament after Olympic champions Georgy Balavidze and
Vakhtang Kartozya ended in Tbilisi.

The tournament featured sportsmen from Georgia, Ukraine, Armenia,
France, Azerbaijan, and India.

Mostly, reserve wrestlers travelled to Georgia from Armenia.

Armenian Greco-Roman wrestlers Armen Antonyan (60 kg), Vahram
Khachatryan (66 kg), Varsham Boranyan (74 kg), Arthur Shahinyan (84
kg) and Arman Geghamyan (96 kg) reached the finals but sufficed with
silver medals.

Free-style wrestler Gegham Babakhanyan (55 kg) won a silver medal
and Arthur Baghdasaryan (60 kg) a bronze medal.