Read more about the performance of the Ukrainians in this review from Sport.ua.
Let’s start with the brightest event of Wednesday evening – the final fight in the weight category up to 97 kg, in which the star representative of our team Yehor Yakushenko effectively defeated the silver medalist of the Asian Championship in this age group Yussuf Matsiyev from Kazakhstan with a score of 6:1. Thus, 19-year-old Yehor Yakushenko won the third gold of youth majors this year: before Novi Sad, he won the European Championship U23 and the European Championship U20. If it wasn’t for the defeat in the Euro U20 final, the collection could have been even more unique. After all, Yehor’s achievements are already impressive, because last year he won the World and European U20 championships.
It should be noted that on the Serbian mats, Yakushenko fought with his inherent ease and effectiveness in all four bouts. On the way to the final, he defeated Georgian Luka Gabisonia 8:0, after the last effective action with a final score of 3:3, he defeated the representative of the collective farm named after Lukashenka Abubakar Haslakhanov, and in the semifinals he defeated Estonian Richard Kalerlson 6:3.
Up to 97 kg
1. Yehor Yakushenko (Ukraine)
2. Yussuf Matsiyev (Kazakhstan)
3. Richard Karelson (Estonia)
3. Maxim Averin (catsap)
Crimean Tatar Irfan Mirzoyev, who represents the Poltava region and competes in the weight category up to 77 kg, has been in the top bracket of representatives of his weight category in various age groups for a long time. In particular, at the 2023 World Championship among wrestlers not older than 23 years, Irfan won silver.
Mirzoev started his performance in Novi Sad with a difficult 6:4 victory over Finland’s Yonny Sarkkinen, the European U23 champion who competed at the Olympics in Paris last year. Then there was another difficult 3:1 victory over Turk Muslim Barga. Mirzoev had the easiest quarter-final fight, in which he defeated Serbian Zalan Pek 8:0. Perhaps the main victory was won by Irfan in the semi-finals, winning with a score of 2:2 after the last effective action of the reigning European champion among adults, Levente Levay from Hungary. And in the final, the Ukrainian defeated the Georgian Temuri Ordzhonikidze 4:1 with a significant advantage, thus bringing Ukraine the first gold of the championship.
Up to 77 kg
1. Irfan Mirzoev (Ukraine)
2. Temuri Ordzhonikidze (Georgia)
3. Alexandru Solovei (Moldova)
3. Levente Levay (Hungary)
Ivan Chmyr won silver in the weight category up to 87 kg. This result is probably the maximum at the moment, given that in the final our wrestler faced Iranian Golamreza Farrokhi, who a little more than a month ago became the world champion among adults. Actually, the Persian won now. He overcame the Ukrainian in the fight for gold ahead of time, establishing a 10:0 advantage in just two minutes.
And on the way to the final, Chmyr defeated four opponents: Serbian Andrija Mihailovic – 3:1, Georgian Achiko Bolkvadze – 1:1 (in the last effective action), Frenchman Vladimir Karkhaidze – 3:1 and Polish Yassin Ben Labeda – 2:1.
For Ivan Chmyry, this award is the first at the level of world championships in any age group. Previously, he was the bronze medalist of the European Championship U20 in 2023.
Up to 87 kg
1. Golamreza Farrohi (Iran)
2. Ivan Chmyr (Ukraine)
3. Peyton Jacobson (USA)
3. Achiko Bolkvadze (Georgia)
Ivan Chmyr Tomorrow, on the final competitive day for representatives of the Greco-Roman style of this championship, the representative of the weight category up to 82 kg, Ruslan Abdiev, will bring the fourth award to Ukraine. I want to believe that it will be another gold. Ruslan, who has already competed in the last two adult world championships, defeated the Iranian Abolfazl Mehmedi 4:3 at the start of the current world championship in Novi Sad. Then there was a 9:0 victory over the Chinese Maimaiti Abudushalam. In the quarterfinals, Ruslan was stronger than the American Beka Melelashvili – 2:1. The semi-final fight against Georgian Data Chhaidze turned out to be the most difficult, which our wrestler won with a score of 1:1 due to the fact that he was the last to perform effectively. In the final on Thursday, October 23, in the evening, Abdiyev will fight with the winner of the previous two U23 world championships, Alexandrin Gutsa from Moldova.
Ruslan Abdiev throws Beka Melelashvili The three-time Euro U23 champion, heavyweight Mykhailo Vyshnyvetskyi also expected to climb the podium. The Ukrainian started his fight with a victory over the vice-champion of the U20 world Kemal Yusuf Bakir from Turkey. But in the 1/8th there was a painful defeat 1:8 against the reigning champion of the Pan American Games U23 Adden Attao from the USA. And that’s all.
Up to 130 kg
1. Fardin Fedayati (Iran)
2. Razmik Kurdyan (Armenia)
3. Laszlo Darabos (Hungary)
3. Alexander Melekhov (catsap)
…8. Mykhailo Vyshnyvetskyi (Ukraine)
The representative of the lightest weight category, Yegor Odnovol, after winning the opening match 8:0 over the Serbian Sabolch Losonch, lost to the U17 world champion Armin Shamsipurhaji from Iran in the 1/8th by the same score and ended his participation in the tournament.
Up to 55 kg
1. Elmir Aliyev (Azerbaijan)
2. Alibek Amirov (catsap)
3. Khodzhiakbar Kuchkarov (Uzbekistan)
3. Vishwajit Ramchandra More (India)
…12. Yehor Odnovol (Ukraine)
The representative of the weight category up to 63 kg, Vadim Matros, spectacularly (11:4) defeated the Chinese Xiaoli Fan in the first fight, but then he sensationally lost 0:8 to Ilias Laaueni from the Netherlands and, as a result, also ended the fight at the 1/8 final stage.
Up to 63 kg
1. Zia Babashov (Azerbaijan)
2. Vitalie Eremenko (Moldova)
3. Dorji Shungurtsikov (katsap)
3. Adam Elsayed (Egypt)
… Vadim Matros (Ukraine) – lost in the 1/8 finals
The representative of the category up to 67 kg Imed Khudzhadze became the only Ukrainian who stopped fighting after the opening bout, who lost 5:8 to the Armenian Ruben Miranyan in the qualification.
Up to 67 kg
1. Hassan Abdelrehim (Egypt)
2. Andri Khozrevanidze (Georgia)
3. Ahmad Reza Mosennejad (Iran)
3. Otto Black (USA)
…Imed Khudzhadze (Ukraine) – lost in the qualification
Oleg Khalilov (up to 72 kg) in the first round met with the main favorite, the current champion of Asia among adults and, as it turned out, now two-time world champion U23 Iman Mohammadi from Iran. The Ukrainian conceded 0:6, and since the opponent reached the final, he continued the fight in the consolation tournament, which began with a convincing 10:1 victory over Hungarian Mate Veg. But in the next match, he lost 1:3 against the Azerbaijani Ruslan Nurullaev.
Up to 72 kg
1. Iman Mohammadi (Iran)
2. Abror Atabaev (Uzbekistan)
3. Ruslan Nurullaev (Azerbaijan)
3. Merey Mulitkanov (Kazakhstan)
… Oleg Khalilov (Ukraine) – lost in the consolation tournament
Bohdan Hryshyn (up to 60 kg) after a difficult victory at the start over the Dane Brian Santiago (on the score of 1:1 the Ukrainian got the advantage, because the results of the executive action was the last) lost 1:8 to the Chinese Wang Zhaojian in the second round. Since the Asian lost the next fight, the Ukrainian was also eliminated.
Next, women’s wrestling representatives began wrestling at the World Championship.
Source: sport.ua