Champions and prize winners of Greco-Roman wrestling style were found out in four weight classes on the fifth day of European Championship which is underway in Belgrade. Information was not placed on websites of FILA and the championship. If not one of the Turkish TV Channels which broadcast live of decisive matches, fans would not have known anything about Top 3 until FILA wanted. The following sportsmen of Begi Darchia wrestled on the mat: Kemal Kharabadze (55kg), Irakli Chochua (60kg), Soso Jabidze (96kg) and Guram Perselidze (120kg). None of them managed to win medal.
One Georgian stood on the pedestal but he wrestled in the name of other country – Shalva Gadabadze (96kg) brought bronze medal to Azerbaijani team.
On the last day of European Championship – on March 11 Greco-Roman champions and prize winners will be found out in 66, 74 and 84kg.
The following sportsmen will wrestle in the name of Georgia: last champion of Europe (in 60kg) Revaz Lashkhi (66kg), prize winner of Europe and world (in 66kd) Manuchar Tskhadaia (74kg) and Vladimer Gegeshidze (84kg).
Greco-Roman wrestling
European Championship
Belgrade
March 10
55kg
1 Elchin Aliyev (Azerbaijan)
2 Peter Modos (Hungary)
3 Alexander Kostadinov (Bulgaria)
3 Patih Ucuncu (Turkey)
60kg
1 Istvan Levai (Slovakia)
2 Ivo Serafimov Angelov (Bulgaria)
3 Arslan Abdulin (Russia)
3 Davor Stefanek (Serbia)
96kg
1 Artur Aleksanyan (Armenia)
2 Mindaugas Ezerskis (Lithuania)
3 Sergey Rutenko (Ukraine)
3 Shalva Gadabadze (Azerbaijan)
120kg
1 Riza Kayaalp (Turkey)
2 Hasan Baroev (Russia)
3 Evgeny Orlov (Ukraine)
3 Yuri Patrikeev (Armenia)
Freestyle wrestling
March 6-9
55kg
1 Jamal Otarsultanov (Russia)
2 Besik Guchashvili (Georgia)
3 Radoslav Marinov Velikov (Bulgaria)
3 Ahmet Peker (Turkey)
60kg
1 Toghrul Asgarov (Azerbaijan)
2 Anatoli Guidea (Bulgaria)
3 Malkhaz Zarkua (Georgia)
3 Rasul Murtazaliev (Russia)
66kg
1. Alan Gogaev (Russia)
2. Leonid Bazan (Bulgaria)
3. Gergery Violer (Hungary)
3. David Safaryan (Armenia)
5. Otar Tushishvili (Georgia)
74kg
1 Denis Tsargush (Russia)
2 Davit Khutsishvili (Georgia)
3 Alexander Gostiev (Azerbaijan)
3 Gabor Hatos (Hungary)
84 kg
1 Davit Marsagishvili (Georgia)
2 Mikhail Petrov Ganev (Bulgaria)
3 Georgina Stefan (Romania)
3 Anzor Urishev (Russia)
96kg
1. Abdusalam Gadisov (Russia)
2. Valeri Andriitsev (Ukraine)
3. Serhat Balchy (Turkey)
3. Ivan Yankouski (Belarus)
9 Giorgi Gogshelidze (Georgia)
120kg
1 Taha Akgul (Turkey)
2 Daniel Ligeti (Hungary)
3 Davit Modzmanashvili (Georgia)
3 Ihar Dziatko (Belarus)
Team result
1 Russia 60
2 Georgia 52
3 Bulgaria 49
4 Turkey 44
5 Ukraine 30
6 Belarus 28
7 Hungary 27
8 Azerbaijan 26
9 Armenia 19
10 Romania 16
39 countries participated in European Championship.
Otar Maglakelidze
