Armenia’s Tigran Minasyan will face Cihat Ahmet Liman (Turkey) in the 55kg category in the quarter-finals. Hrachyan Poghosyan (Armenia, 63kg) is starting the qualification round with a match against Turkish athlete Abdullah Toprak.

Another Armenia representative Hakob Baghdasaryan (87kg) will compete with Junyeop Park (South Korea), while his teammate David Ovasapyan (130kg) is facing Ignat Sevinov Milenov (Bulgaria) in the quarter-finals.

Other Armenian athletes to compete in Trnava are Ararat Manucharyan (60kg), Malkhas Amoyan (67kg), Erik Eloyan (82kg) and Razmik Khachatryan (97kg).