Sports: Wrestler Artur Aleksanyan declared winner of Kiev international tournament

Emil Lazarian 2018
Panorama, Armenia
Feb 26 2018
Sport 10:39 26/02/2018Armenia

Olympic champion, a three-time World Champion a three-time European Champion Artur Aleksanyan of Armenia was named the winner of the Kiev international tournament.  As the National Olympic Committee of Armenia reported, in the final bout the 97kg weight class, Aleksanyan defeated Dmitri Timchenko of Ukraine.

Another representative of Armenia Slavik Galstyan competing in the 63kg weight class, conquered bronze, the source said.

Emil Lazarian

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