Wrestling UWW European Championships 2020

[MHSN 3,150]

there will be two Italian wrestlers in SF later today, no surprise about Kakhelasvhili but I think nobody expected this guy Russo to beat Russia and Armenia !

 

60kg: Magisalu vs Gharibyan /// Kamal vs Shavadze

67kg: Thoresen vs Liavonchyk /// Abdullaev vs Aslanyan

72kg: Stabler vs Kurak /// Can vs Lomadze

82kg: Russo vs Huseynov /// Wagner vs Aleksandrov

97kg: Aleksanyan vs Kuosmanen /// Golovin vs Kakhelashvili

[phelps 6,771]

19 minutes ago, MHSN said:

there will be two Italian wrestlers in SF later today, no surprise about Kakhelasvhili but I think nobody expected this guy Russo to beat Russia and Armenia !

 

60kg: Magisalu vs Gharibyan /// Kamal vs Shavadze

67kg: Thoresen vs Liavonchyk /// Abdullaev vs Aslanyan

72kg: Stabler vs Kurak /// Can vs Lomadze

82kg: Russo vs Huseynov /// Wagner vs Aleksandrov

97kg: Aleksanyan vs Kuosmanen /// Golovin vs Kakhelashvili

 

yeah, I watched Russo's bout in the QTFs vs the Armenian guy and I couldn't trust my eyes...

 

he started strong and then he could keep up with their opponent for the entire match...Russo's tactics has been almost perfect...he only made a little mistake towards the end of the 1st round, but it only cost him 2 points (from 4-1 to 4-3)...

in the second round basically nothing happened...he was never in danger and he also got a nice passivity point gift towards the end...

 

Nikoloz, on the other hand, just destroyed Omarov in their QTFs match-up...he took advantage of an early passivity of the Russian-born Czech and then he rolled him around to score 8 more points and quickly close the bout...

 

now, I don't think Russo would go further, but I hope Nikoloz can beat also the true Russian in the semifinals and get a chance to face the great Aleksanyan in the big final...

[Gianlu33 3,570]

I'm very impressed by Ciro Russo, finally our wrestling give some sign of life... I'm very hyped for Freni's medal match, I remember him at cadet/juniors events and he wasn't so bad

[Gianlu33 3,570]

Kakhelashvili qualified for the final Let's hope that Lamorgese will do something of smart, I think that Kakhelashvili deserve the Italian passport...

[MHSN 3,150]

seeded athletes for the European Qualifiers after 1st day in Olympic weights, remember only top 2 will be seeded but if any of them doesn't participate they go to the 3rd guy in the ranking and so on

 

77kg:

#1 Pavel Liakh

#2 Sanan Suleymanov

#3 Paulius Galkinas

#4 Roman Vlasov

#5 Volodimyr Yakovliev

 

I'm almost sure Likah and Galkinas will participate, so Roman Vlasov most probably won't be seeded. I think nobody wants him in his bracket.

 

 

87kg:

#1 Ivan Huklek

#2 Aleksanr Komarov

#3 Islam Abbasov

#4 Metehan Basar

#5 Eividas Stankevicius

 

130kg:

#1 Alin Alexuc-Ciurariu

#2 Mykola Kuchmii

#3 Arvi Savolainen

#4 Zurabi Gedekhauri

#5 Beka Kandelaki

 

Except the Romanian guy being #1, I'm not sure if the rest participate ! but Kuchmii is likely to participate and take the 2nd seed.

 

Edited February 11, 2020 by MHSN

[Gianlu33 3,570]

Dalma Caneva defeated Schell, the world medallist

[MHSN 3,150]

seeding for the remaining weights for the Olympic qualifiers in Europe

 

 

60kg:

#1 Kerem Kamal

#2 Gevorg Gharibyan

#3 Ivo Angelov

 

67kg:

#1 Morten Thoresen

#2 Gevorg Sahakyan

#3 Karen Aslanyan

 

97kg:

#? Nikoloz Kakhelashvili

#1 Artur Omarov

#2 Melonin Noumonvi

#3 Matti Kuosmanen

 

 

[MHSN 3,150]

it seems I'm the only person interested in European Championship   so let me talk to myself once more

 

I'm sure most users here don't know Ibrahim Bolukbasi, because he never won anything big but this guy was always a tricky wrestler and today he almost pinned the great Sadullaev. he had the lock and only the great Rashid could survive that.

 

I admire Sadullaev and consider him the best wrestler in the world right now and one of the best wrestlers in history but I would love to see someone beating him in freestyle wrestling when you lock head and one of the legs that's impossible to escape. but Rashid did the impossible.

 

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[Federer91 2,131]

I'm watching here and there, just don't have time to comment regularly. Everyone is looking towards the OQT, these Euros feel not like a big tournament. It doesn't help that there are 30 people in the hall for the medal matches... Standard performance by our teams, though i expected more.

[phelps 6,771]

1 hour ago, MHSN said:

it seems I'm the only person interested in European Championship   so let me talk to myself once more

 

I'm sure most users here don't know Ibrahim Bolukbasi, because he never won anything big but this guy was always a tricky wrestler and today he almost pinned the great Sadullaev. he had the lock and only the great Rashid could survive that.

 

I admire Sadullaev and consider him the best wrestler in the world right now and one of the best wrestlers in history but I would love to see someone beating him in freestyle wrestling when you lock head and one of the legs that's impossible to escape. but Rashid did the impossible.

 

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no, you're not the only one...

until today, I've been watching all finals session (even if only delayed, therefore I'm not commenting that much nor posting medallists regularly) and a few preliminaries as well...

 

then, today was a really bad day for me for personal reasons, so unfortunately I couldn't watch anything...

 

I must say that the empty hall is really depressing, but still we've seen quite a few decent and entertaining bouts, despite most big names are not competing...

 

p.s. just noticing the difference between a wrestling Nation like KAZ and ITA...

look at the draw in the men's freestyle -74kg...Chamizo vs Demirtas and then the winner against Gadzhiyev...

or the -57kg always in freestyle: Davidovi vs Dukov and then the Romanian against Atli...

in certain Countries (KAZ is only one of them) it would have never happened...