World Wrestling Championships: Gevorg Tadevosyan beats Mukubu 10–4
The Armenian wrestler won his 87 kg quarterfinal in Astana, joining teammates Slavik Galstyan and Karen Aslanyan in the semifinals.
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The Armenian wrestler won his 87 kg quarterfinal in Astana, joining teammates Slavik Galstyan and Karen Aslanyan in the semifinals.
By October 26, 2026, Armenia’s Gevorg Tadevosyan had reached the World Wrestling Championships semifinals after beating Norway’s Exauce Mukubu 10–4 in the 87 kg Greco-Roman quarterfinal in Astana, Kazakhstan.
Slavik Galstyan and Karen Aslanyan had already advanced to the semifinals. Tadevosyan’s victory made him the third member of Armenia’s national Greco-Roman wrestling team to reach that stage, putting him through to the 87 kg semifinals.
Armenia’s Karen Aslanyan wins his first 63 kg world title in Astana, beating Nihat Mammadli 8–4. Saeid Esmaeili Leivesi pins Aitzhan Khalmakhanov at 8–0 for 67 kg gold, and Semen Novikov beats Alireza Mohamadipiani 4–0 for 87 kg gold. In the bronze bouts, Sergey Emelin beats Aref Mohammadi 9–0 and Ozodbek Khalimboyev beats Edmond Nazaryan 7–3 at 63 kg; Bagdat Sabaz beats Hasrat Jafarov 8–5 and Luis Orta Sánchez beats Slavik Galstyan 10–6 at 67 kg; and Lasha Gobadze beats Mukhammadkodir Rasulov 5–1 and Gevorg Tadevosyan beats Yaroslav Filchakov at 87 kg. Galstyan finishes fifth; Armenia ends with one gold and one bronze.
Iran’s Seyed Sohrabi beat Krisztian Vancza 4–0 for the 72 kg title and Fardin Hedayati beat Darius Vitek 8–0 at 130 kg; Belarus’s Kirill Maskevich beat Artur Sargsyan 7–1 at 97 kg. In the 26 October bronze bouts, Iuri Lomadze beat Parviz Nasibov 7–4, Amantur Ismailov beat Mingiyan Goryaev 10–0, Kiril Milov beat Markus Ragginger 10–0, Mohammad Hadi Saravi beat Alex Kessidis 3–0, Pavel Glinchuk beat Rafael Tsitsuashvili 3–1 and Wenhao Jiang beat Elias Kuosmanen 9–4. In the semifinals, Karen Aslanyan beat Edmond Nazaryan 12–4, Nihat Mammadli beat Sergey Emelin on criteria at 2–2, Aytjan Khalmakhanov beat Slavik Galstyan 4–0, Saeid Esmaeili Leivesi beat Hasrat Jafarov on criteria at 1–1, Alireza Azizkhoon Mohmadipiani beat Gevorg Tadevosyan 10–1 and Semen Novikov beat Muhammadqodir Rasulov 2–0. Aslanyan’s final against Mammadli and bronze bouts for Galstyan and Tadevosyan are scheduled for 27 October.
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Armenia finish without a medal as Russia’s Artur Sargsyan beats Olympic champion Saravi to reach the 97 kg final scheduled for October 26.
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