The 5th day of the World Veterans Wrestling Championship, which is being held at the indoor gym “G. Galanopoulos “in Loutraki. Vassilis Boukis at 70 kg and Vassilis Batalas at 88 kg of Greco-Roman wrestling managed to climb to the bottom of the winners in a day with many ambiguous and full of fights.

Vassilis Boukis in the race for the bronze medal showed his superiority and easily made the technical superiority of Kalmourza Gildubaev from Kyrgyzstan. Earlier, it defeated Nariman Kairmanov of Kazakhstan 5-3 and advanced to the quarterfinals, where it lost 5-0 to Frenchman Jamel Ainaoui.

“I considered the game with the Frenchman final. I gave it my all and finally got the bronze. “Now I will prepare for the organization of 2023 that will take place again in Greece”, said among others Vassilis Boukis.

The second bronze medal was awarded to the Greek colors by Vassilis Batalas at 88 kg. The Greek champion left no room for doubt and easily defeated the Kazakh Mahmoud Orman with technical superiority.

In his first match, Vassilis Batalas advanced impressively to the semifinals, as in the round of 8 he prevailed with the fall of the Bulgarian Georgi Tasef. In the semifinals, they were defeated 5-2 by Octavius ​​Trayvon Bellamy from the United States, in a very intense game that was judged in the second minute with the penalty to the Greek athlete, which provoked strong reactions from the Greek side.

“Easy is not a fight. I was sad that I did not qualify for the final in the last second, but I won the medal. I had great support from all Greeks and I dedicate the medal to them, as well as to my teacher who left a few months ago “.

In the morning program, at 88 kg, Vassilis Spanoudakis in the quarterfinals has in detail the Russian Fedor Bourmistrov. The Greek wrestler led 2-0 in points, but in the end Burmistrov made the upset to get the victory with 3-2.

Finally, in the second group of 100 kg in his first fight Alexandros Manafas fell with a fall from the Norwegian Tom Liosaak, while in the second fight he lost with a technical superiority from the Russian Vassily Yuvkin.