On April 19-21 in the city the Gothenburg in Sweden took place the large international tournament "Soft Tach Oupen" on Greco-Roman wrestling among young men and juniors.

584 (!) athletes gathered for it from 119 sports clubs of Denmark, Sweden and Norway. Among a huge number of participants two Vainakh athletes managed to cause a stir. Champion Danii Raybek Bisultanov acted this year in group of juniors in weight category 74 kg. It had exactly 20 rivals. Raybek carried out in total six duels. Showing technical fight, it reached the ending where it was resisted by the Swedish wrestler Mark Yokhanson. Bisultanov very competently carried out fight and, having won with the score 4:0, 1:0, became the champion of tournament.

In group of young men till 17 years in weight category  54 kg there were 16 participants, including, Islam Katsiyev from the Swedish club "Byornekulla". Islam carried out the first four fights perfectly, in three of them won on "touch" and passed in the ending. The decisive duel with Swede Eric Suoni began not so pleasantly for Katsiyev. He lost the first period with a whitewash — 0:4. However, in the second period gathered and I won behind a clear advantage — 6:0. The most intense third period ended, unfortunately, loss of our wrestler with the score 1:3 and Islam Katsiyev became the owner of a silver medal.

 By Movladi ABDULAEV

http://chechensport.com/