11. 05. 2017
Košice, Bucharest (11-14.05.2017) The Slovak delegation traveled to the international championship in a quality lineup. A total of fifteen freestyle wrestlers, junior Greco-Roman representatives, one junior woman, and one cadette were able to measure their strength at the UWW tournament.
On the opening day of the competition, Nina Kollárová, the only representative of the fairer sex in the cadette category, competed. Unfortunately, after her first loss to a TUR, she did not advance to further fights.
On the second day, the Košice freestyle wrestler, in the 74 kg weight category, Róbert Szatmári, joined the fight. He won his first match against a local Romanian. In the second round, he ran into his Slovak colleague Akhsarbek Gulaev, with whom he lost. The eventual winner of the weight class pulled him into the repechage, but in the match for bronze, he was no match for a Frenchman.
On the last day of the IT, we managed to win a metal for the Slovak colors, in the form of a bronze, which was won by Jozef Mesiarkin, in the 85 kg weight category. Matúš Sýkora wrestled one weight class higher, but after a loss to a Ukrainian, he did not get to the second round.
Our international referee Ivan Vymazal and the head of the delegation Marek Sciranka were not missing from the delegation. ah