London Olympics’ participant Hajimurad Nurmagomedov (86 kg), recently returned to Armenia’s freestyle wrestling team , failed to grab a medal at Nusuyev Memorial Tournament.

In the quarter-finals Armenia’s wrestler was defeated 2:3 by Belarus’s Omar Magomedov and fell out of the competition. On the eve Nurmagomedov had won the first bout blowing away Russia’s Razmik Hovhannisyan 12:1 and then winning another Russian wrestler with a score of 3:2.

At the Memorial Tournament after Russian Merited coach Shevalye Nusuyev held on December 4-5 at Moscow’s CSKA gym, Armenian representatives, World and 2013 European champion Davit Safaryan (65kg) was crowned champion and 2014 European Championship’s bronze medalist Garik Barseghyan (57kg) captured gold.

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ANOC press office