ARMENIAN FREESTYLE WRESTLING CHAMPIONSHIP COMPLETED
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25.01.2010 17:07 GMT+04:00
/PanARMENIAN.Net/ On the first tournament day, January 23, Armenian
Freestyle Wrestling Championship hosted sportsmen in 55, 60 and 66
kg weight categories.
On January 24, wrestlers in 74, 84, 96 and 120 kg. weight categories
competed.
As head coach of Armenian freestyle wrestling team Araik Baghdadyan
told PanARMENIAN.Net reporter, champion titles went to:
74 kg. weight category 1st place – David Papoyan 2nd place – Hayk
Karapetyan 3rd place – Meruzhan Zadoyan and Zhora Virabyan
84kg. weight category 1st place -Vadim Laliyev 2nd place – Gevorg
Avsharyan 3rd place – Gajimurad Nurmagammedov
84kg. weight category 1st place – Edgar Yenokyan 2nd place -Sergey
Khachatryan 3rd place -Grogor Grigoryan and Pavlik Asatryan
120kg. weight category 1st place -Ruslan Basiyev 2nd place -Karen
Karapetyan 3rd place – Hayk Khachatryan and Grigor Apoyan
Freestyle wrestling is a style of amateur wrestling that is practiced
throughout the world. Along with Greco-Roman, it is one of the two
styles of wrestling contested in the Olympic games. It is, along with
track and field, one of the oldest organized sports in history.
American high school and college wrestling is conducted under different
rules and is termed scholastic and collegiate wrestling.
Freestyle wrestling, like its American counterpart, collegiate
wrestling, has its greatest origins in catch-as-catch-can wrestling
and, in both styles, the ultimate goal is to pin your opponent to the
mat, which results in an immediate win. Freestyle and collegiate
wrestling, unlike Greco-Roman, also both allow the use of the
wrestler’s or his opponent’s legs in offense and defense.
According to the International Federation of Associated Wrestling
Styles (FILA), freestyle wrestling is one of the four main forms of
amateur competitive wrestling that are practiced internationally
today. Others of the main forms of wrestling are Greco-Roman and
Grappling (also called submission wrestling).