On Sunday, June 30th, 2019 was the last day of the European Games held in the capital of Belarus, Minsk. On the 10th day of the competition Armenia was represented by 3 athletes: wrestling, boxing and sport gymnastics. The Armenian athletes won 4 gold and one silver medals representing the country with honor.
Boxer Arthur Hovhannisyan (49 kg) fought in the final with the representative of Georgia Sakhil Alakhverdov, winning with the score 4-1, becoming European champion. Arthur Hovhannisyan started the fight with 1/8 finals, defeating Belarusian Evgeny Karmilchuk with a score of 5-0. In the quarterfinal, Hovhannisyan scored 4-1 with Romanian Cosmin Girlyanu and defeated Ireland’s Rayan Dali in the semifinals with a score of 3-2.
Boxer Hovhannes Bachkov (64 kg) also became a champion of the games. In the final Armenian boxer defeated Frenchman Umiha Sophia with a score 3-2. Bachkov started the fight in the 1/8 finals, where he scored 5.0 against Irish McGuire James. In the quarter-finals he defeated Alexander Tsankidis, Greece’s representative with a score of 5.0. In the semifinals, Netherlands representative Enrico Lacrosse won by a score of 4.1.
Greco-Roman wrestler Arthur Alexanyan competed with Belarusian representative Alexander Grabovic in the 97kg weight classification of the European Games. Armenian athlete celebrated victory with a score of 5-0. Aleksanyan started the fight in the 1/8 finals where he defeated Georgia’s Revaz Nadeghishvili 2-1, and in the 1/4 finals, multiple champions of the world and Europe won a 3-1 victory over Austrian representative Daniel Gastle. In the semi-finals, the Armenian athlete’s rival was Russia’s representative Alexander Golov whom he won with a score of 3-1.
Armenian gymnast Arthur Davtyan won a gold medal in the finals of individual athletic exercises, in which our athlete recorded 15,016 results. Earlier, Davtyan had already participated in the freestyle exercise. Having recorded 13,466 results, he took the last 6th place.
The gymnast Vahagn Davtyan became the silver medalist in the exercises with 14.766 results. Vahagn Davtyan overcame this qualifying round with 14,500 scores.
Armenian Greco-Roman wrestler Maxim Manukyan (87kg weight category) lost in the medal-winning match with a 3-3 defeat. The opponent was Arkadius Koolich, the representative of Poland.
