XXI freestyle, Greco-roman and female wrestling international tournament dedicated to the memory of distinguished wrestlers and coaches of Ukraine being held in Kiev.

Members of our freestyle and female wrestling national teams attend at the tournament.

In the first day of the tournament competed freestyle wrestlers in 57, 65, 74 and 97 kg and female wrestlers in 48, 55, 60 and 69 kg weighting categories.


Our representative in 48 kg in female wrestling Turkan Nasirovs beating in a row two Ukrainian representatives reached the final. Loosing in the final to USA sportsman our wrestlers became runner up of the tournament.

Competing in 60 kg Tatyana Omelchenko beating all rivals gained gold medal of the tournament. In the first bout beating with high superority Olympic and world champion Helen Maroulisi from USA our representative in the semifinal gained a win over Ukrainian and in the final another wrestlers from USA.

Gitinomagomed Gadjiyev defending sport honour of our country in men’s freestyle competitions beating rivals from Ukraine and USA in the semifinal lost to Romanian athlete and got a right to wrestle for bronze medal. In the decisive match winning Moldavian representative our athlete gained bronze medal of the competitions.

Our representative in 65 kg Magomed Muslumov gained bronze medal as well. In the decisive bout he beat Ukrainian sportsman with high superiority.

Mirjalal Hasanzade (57 kg) and Elis Manolova (69 kg) completed tournament on the 5^th place.

So, in the first day of the competitions our wrestlers completed having gained 1 gold, 1 silver and 2 bronze medals. Gold medal hung on her neck Tatyana Omelchenko (60 kg), runner up is Turkan Nasirova (48 kag), bronze medals to our team gained Gitinomagomed Gadjiyev and Magomed Muslumov (both 65 kg).

57 kg  Bronze medal match Mirjalal Hasanzade - Reza Atrinagarchi (IRI) 2:5 Repechage bout  Taras Markovich (UKR) -Mirjalal Hasanzade 4:5 1/4 final Andrey Yatsenko (UKR) - Mirjalal Hasanzade 2:0 Round of 16  Mirjalal Hasanzade - Armen Arakelian (UKR) 7:5 Parviz Ibrahimov - Reza Atrinagarchi (IRI) 5:6 65 kg  Bronze medal match  Maxim Perepelitsa (MDA) - Gitinomagomed Gadjiyev 0:5 Magomed Muslumov- Andrey Kviatovskiy (UKR) 12:0 Repechage bout  Teymur Mammadov - Maxim Perepelitsa (MDA) 0:3 1/2 final  Gitinomagomed Gadjiyev - Georgi Bucar (ROU) 1:12 1/4 final  Gitinomagomed Gadjiyev - Evan Hedderson (USA) 10:4 Gor Ogannesyan (UKR) - Magomed Muslumov 12:8 Round of 16 Morteza Giyasi (IRI) - Magomed Muslumov 0:4 Andrey Svirid (UKR) - Gitinomagomed Gadjiyev 2:8 Teymur Mammadov - Georgi Bucar (ROU) 1:3

48 kg  FINAL  Viktoriya Antoni (USA) - Turkan Nasirova 10:0 1/2 final Turkan Nasirova - Yevgeniya Pavlova (UKR) 10:0 1/4 final  Oxana Livac (UKR) - Turkan Nasirova 2:3 55 kg Repechage bout  Rim Ayari (TUN) - Solmaz Hashimzade 11:0 1/4 final  Tetyana Kit (UKR) - Alyona Kolesnik 4:1 Irina Kurachkina (BLR) - Solmaz Hashimzade 2:1 Round of 16  Solmaz Hashimzade - Mariya Holub (UKR) 7:0 60 kg FINAL Alli Ragan (USA) -Tatyana Omelchenko 2:5 1/2 final Irina Koliadenko (UKR) - Tatyana Omelchenko 0:8 1/4 final  Tatyana Omelchenko - Helen Maroulis (USA) 5:0 touch 69 kg Bronze medal bout  Elis Manolova - Aline Focken (GER) 0:7 1/4 final  Alla Cherkasova (UKR) - Elis Manolova 4:2