Aleksanyan enters semi-finals at European wrestling championships

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YEREVAN, FEBRUARY 13, ARMENPRESS. Armenia’s Olympic champion Artur Aleksanyan has advanced to the semi-finals at the European Greco-Roman Wrestling Championships after defeating 8:3 his Dutch opponent Tyrone Sterkenburg in the 97kg division.

Aleksanyan earlier defeated Turkey’s Beytullah Kayisdag 9:1 in his first bout at the event.

Armenia’s Gevorg Gharibyan (60kg) defeated 9:0 Ilias Zairakis (Greece) in the elimination round. Slavik Galstyan (67kg) also won his first bout against Sweden’s Niklas Oehlen 12:4, but then lost 8:0 to Russian Ruslan Bichurin (who is competing as an Individual Neutral Athlete) in the quarter finals. Galstyan will continue at the championships if Bichurin makes it to the finals.

In the 82kg division’s elimination round Karen Khachatryan defeated 8:6 Croatia’s Filip Sacic.

Emil Lazarian

“I should like to see any power of the world destroy this race, this small tribe of unimportant people, whose wars have all been fought and lost, whose structures have crumbled, literature is unread, music is unheard, and prayers are no more answered. Go ahead, destroy Armenia . See if you can do it. Send them into the desert without bread or water. Burn their homes and churches. Then see if they will not laugh, sing and pray again. For when two of them meet anywhere in the world, see if they will not create a New Armenia.” - WS