World Championship 2016, the sixth day: a review >>>

World Championship 2016, the sixth day: a review # Armwrestling # Armpower.net

The final day of the championship brought us many surprises: new leaders and sports stars, discoveries and failures. How seniors pulled on the right hand?

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About women classes: in the category of 50 kg Snezana Babeva confident won gold and left Esra Kiraz and Marina Levchenko at the loweer steps of the podium. In the category of 55 kg Dimitrina Dimitrova, which greatly adds to the strength and technique under the guidance of Krasimira Kostadinova, won easily. The fight of the evening - the protracted struggle of girls in the category 60 kg – Ksenia Zoryankina and Elvira Shadyrkul, which seriously weakened this two rivals.

In the category of 85 kg was anticipated confrontation between Sasho Andreev and Spartak Zoloev. These sportsmen didn’t met at preliminary fights, as Spartak fell into the category 'B', losing on fouls Ivan Lukyanchuk. Lukyanchuk finished third. In the final, Spartak imposed his struggle, and in the super final he allowed Sasho to go to the hook. Then Sasho was able to win with great difficulty.

Special attention is given to the weight category of 90 kg. From the very beginning of the competition, Khadzhimurat Zoloyev looked very sick, but closer to the final day the inspiration came to him. Despite some difficulties, Khadzhimurat, nevertheless, pulled, than seriously spoiled the chances of the rest of contenders for victory. In fact, there were some pretendents for gold, except Zoloev: Peter Margarint, Evgenii Prudnik, Alan Makeev, Kydyrgali Ongarbaev, Irakli Gamtenadze. However, in the fights sportsmen almost destroy each other, and eventually Peter Margarint, who successfully won Ongarbaev and Gamtenadze, took silver and Khadzhimurat Zoloyev - another gold.

In the category of 100 kg Vitaly Laletin took revenge and won the gold in a duel with Georgii Dzeranov.

In the absence of Krasimir Kostadinov vacant 110 kg champion place was took by athlete from Kyrgyzstan Yevgeny Lukyanov.

Category +110 kg was very intense. The main contenders for gold were Levan Saginashvili, Dmitry Silaev, Gennady Kvikvinia, Arif Ertem, Krasimir Kostadinov. Krasimir could not cope with Ertem and Kvikvinia, and did not enter the top ten. Gennady  reached the final unbeaten. It is worth mentioning the fight of Dmitry Silaev, who won the first fight with Arif Ertem in straps. However, they had to meet again, and during the struggle Dmitry injured finger. So, Arif passes to the semifinals, where he met with Levan Saginashvili and loses.

The Georgian finale unfolded the real fight. Hardly Gennady earn gold.

The last day of the competition was the most intriguing. What do the sportsmen think about their struggle – you will find in our news!