World Championship: Karapet Chalyan secures Tokyo 2020 qualification and reaches semifinal

13:37 - 16 Sep, 2019

Wrestler Karapet Chalyan at 77 kg is in the semifinal of the World Championship. The silver medalist of the European Games won 5:4 Belarusian Pavel Liakh in a tense quarterfinal bout.
Chalyan had started the championship from the 1/16 final where had won 4:2 Japanese Shohei Yabiku and in the 1/8 final he had gained advantage 9:0 over Venezuela’s Rivas Espinoza.
Gevorg Gharibyan also performed today. He lost the first bout 0:7 to Uzbekistan’s Elmurad Tasmuradov who later was defeated too.
Today in the evening Artur Aleksanyan will wrestle against Russia’s Musa Evloev for a world champion title.

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