September 4, 2009 - 16:33 AMT
Armenian boxer Tsolak Ananikyan in stubborn struggle gives way to Slovakia representative
The third day of the World Boxing Championship taking place in Milan, was not very successful for the Armenian team: out of three Armenian boxers, two representatives of the Armenian national team were defeated. First, Samvel Matevosyan (69 kg) lost to Albanian boxer Jetmir Kuci with the 4:10 score. The silver medalist of the European Championship-2008 Tsolak Ananikyan (91 kg) in a bitter struggle gave way to the Slovakian boxer Sandro Dirnfeld with the 10:11 score.

Azat Hovhannisyan (57 kg) won a victory over the representative of Venezuela, Hector Mansania. The battle ended with the score 24:7. Thus Azat Hovhannisyan became the 6th representative of the Armenian team, reached 1/16 finals. Prior to him, Derenik Gizhlaryan (w/c 51 kg), Edward Hambardzumyan (64 kg), Garnik Harutyunyan (54 kg), Andranik Hakobyan (75 kg) and Hrachik Javakhyan (60 kg) received the right to take part in 1/16 finals.

Today in 1/16 finals Hrachik Javakhyan meet with Brazilian Everton Lopez, Hambardzsumyan fight with the representative of Turkey Onur Sipal and Gizhlaryan meet with his compatriot from Russia Misha Aloyan.