The Armenian Greco-Roman wrestling team won one gold and two bronze medals at the World Championships held in Zagreb, Croatia.
Malkhas Amoyan (77 kg) was awarded the title of world champion in the Armenian team, while Hrachya Poghosyan (60 kg) and Slavik Galstyan (67 kg) won bronze medals.
Olympic bronze medalist and four-time European champion Malkhas Amoyan defeated the reigning Olympic champion, Nao Kusaka of Japan, 10:1 in the final of the 77 kg weight category. They won the title of world champion for the second time in their career.
Hrachya Poghosyan wrestled for the bronze medal with Georgi Tibalov representing Serbia and won over him (1:1), and Slavik Galstyan won a decisive victory over Razzaq Beishekeev from Kyrgyzstan with a score of 15-5, becoming the bronze medalist of the World Championships for the second time in his career.
Manvel Khachatryan (55 kg), Karen Aslanyan (63 kg), Gor Khachatryan (72 kilograms), Vigen Nazaryan (87 kg), Artur Aleksanyan (97 kg), and Razmik Kurdyan (130 kg) also participated in the World Championships as part of the Greco-Roman wrestling team.
Arsen Harutyunyan won the only medal of the World Championships as part of the Armenian freestyle wrestling team, becoming a four-time bronze medalist of the World Championships. In the 57 kg weight category, four-time European champion Arsen Harutyunyan defeated Mexican representative Roman Bravo Young 7:4 in a wrestling match for the bronze medal.
