In the Olympic selection, Grigorieva is placed on the shoulder blades – Fighting sports – Sportacentrs.com

In order to win the quota, you must be in the doubles in the world Olympic qualification tournament or win the decisive battle between the bronze medalists of this tournament. Thus, three Olympic quotas will be won in each weight category. This is the last chance for Latvian wrestlers to qualify for the Paris Games.

62 kg freestyle wrestling Latvian freestyle wrestling legend started in the first round of the tournament Anastasia Grigorieva – four-time European champion (2009, 2013, 2014, 2016) and two-time world bronze medalist (2014, 2017). In the first match of the current tournament, the 17-year-old representative of Azerbaijan, Ruzanna Mammadova, who won the 49 kg U17 World Championship and the 49 kg U17 European Championship two years ago, faced off.

In the first minute, the young aspirant performed the four-point technique and put the experienced wrestler on the shoulders, entering the 1/8 finals. Duration of the fight – 49 seconds. If the Azerbaijani wins the semi-finals today, then Grigorjeva will have the opportunity to fight in the bronze tournament tomorrow.

60 kilogram Greco-Roman Latvian wrestler in the first match of the bronze tournament Alexander Yurkyans today with the German Christopher Kremer who won. At the end of the second minute, the score became 0:5, the first half ended with 2:6, at the beginning of the second half Jurkyans reached 4:6, a minute and a half before the end he made a two-point attack (6:6), but the result did not change during the rest of the time. Jurkyans was declared the winner because he had completed the last two-point technique.

As already reported, Jurkyans lost the first match yesterday, but qualified for today’s bronze tournament.

In the bronze semi-final, he faced Poland’s Michal Tracz. In the first half, Jurkyans earned a minimal advantage (1:0), besides, the referee gave Pole a place on the ground floor – our athlete missed this opportunity, because the opponent did not think much and jumped to his feet. A similar situation in the second half ended with Trača’s re-election, thus Jurkyans ended up in the lead – 1:3. In the remaining time, the Latvian athlete was unable to change the situation and suffered a loss, concluding the Olympic selection.

68 kg freestyle wrestling the representative of Latvian freestyle wrestling will compete in the 1/8 finals of the tournament today Elma Zeidler. Slovakia’s Žužanna Molnar, who took fifth place at last year’s European Championship, will face her.

Latvian national team in Baku

As already reported, the European Olympic qualification tournament took place at the beginning of April, where there were two tickets to the Paris Games in each weight category. Anastasija Grigorjeva was the furthest from our team, who stopped in the quarterfinals.

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