The third day of the World Boxing Championship taking place in Milan, was not very successful for the Armenian team: out of three Armenian boxers, two representatives of the Armenian national team were defeated. First, Samvel Matevosyan (69 kg) lost to Albanian boxer Jetmir Kuci with the 4:10 score. The silver medalist of the European Championship-2008 Tsolak Ananikyan (91 kg) in a bitter struggle gave way to the Slovakian boxer Sandro Dirnfeld with the 10:11 score.
Azat Hovhannisyan (57 kg) won a victory over the representative of Venezuela, Hector Mansania. The battle ended with the score 24:7. Thus Azat Hovhannisyan became the 6th representative of the Armenian team, reached 1/16 finals. Prior to him, Derenik Gizhlaryan (w/c 51 kg), Edward Hambardzumyan (64 kg), Garnik Harutyunyan (54 kg), Andranik Hakobyan (75 kg) and Hrachik Javakhyan (60 kg) received the right to take part in 1/16 finals.
Today in 1/16 finals Hrachik Javakhyan meet with Brazilian Everton Lopez, Hambardzsumyan fight with the representative of Turkey Onur Sipal and Gizhlaryan meet with his compatriot from Russia Misha Aloyan.
