Head coach of the Armenian team Pashik Alaverdyan has announced that 9 athletes will represent Armenia in the junior tournament and 8 – in the U23 competition. Most of them won medals in the World Championship in Pattaya last week.
The U23 squad includes Hamlet Mnatsakanyan (61kg weight category), Nshan Antonyan (67 kg), Levon Manukyan (73 kg), Davit Hovhannisyan and Hakob Mkrtchyan (89 kg), Samvel Babakyan (96 kg), Samvel Gasparyan (102 kg) and Simon Martirosyan (+109 kg). The only female athlete to represent Armenia in Bucharest is Tatev Hakobyan (87 kg).
“We will do everything to increase the number of medals and improve on what we achievement last year. We got 81 medals in 2018 and we want to make it 90. We have won 40 so far in 2019,” said Alaverdyan.