Armenian freestyle wrestlers won one silver and one bronze medals on the opening day of the European Wrestling Championships currently underway in Budapest, Hungary.

In particular, Georgia’s Zurabi Iakobishvili, a World Championship gold medalist in 2017, claimed the first European title of his career. In the 70kg final, He was a narrow 2-1 winner against Armenia’s Arman Andreasyan, who took silver.

Manvel Khndzrtsyan, meanwhile, lost his final bout to North Macedonia's Vladimir Egorov to secure bronze.