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Eugeniu Mihalcean grabs bronze at U-20 World Champs


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Moldova’s Eugeniu Mihalcean has won the bronze medal at the Under-20 Wrestling World Championships in Jordan.

Mihalcean scored four victories in the 86 kg category, against Russia’s Ali Shakriev, the Kyrgyz Ulukbek Soorombekov, Iran’s Amirhossein Alizadehshahkolaei and Armenia’s Mushegh Mkrtcjyan, ultimately suffering a defeat from Japan’s Fumiya Igarashi in the semi-finals.

Four other Moldovan wrestlers, Dmitri Carastoianov, Ion Berghi, Pavel Graur and Ion Marcu, reached the repechage phase.