For the first time this popular tournament on three styles of the wrestling, bearing a name of the Olympic champion-1924 in Greco-Roman style Henri Deglian's, took place without his founder and the permanent head of the organizing committee Sebastian Guillaume. He died this summer, however its business lives. Present tournament in Nice became the 39th. On all previous Russian wrestlers steadily acted, but this time they for some reason didn't appear among participants.

Serbia on tournament was represented by native of Makhachkala Zaur Efendiyev (74 kg). It carried out five fights, won against Frenchman Yannik Shoze (8:0), Georgian Archila Grigauri (8:4) and Tarzana Maysuradze (6:5) and Japanese Tsukas Sato (7:0). Only defeat from Frenchman Luk Lampis in a semi-final (3:5) didn't allow it to rise above the third place.

In Nice the Latvian wrestler Armands Zvirbulis (84 kg) whom the Dagestan fighters consider long ago also fought. It often comes to be trained to Dagestan where him name precisely Abdullah. Armands took in Nice the second place. He infrequently manages to get in prize-winners of the international competitions, and for him tournament getting into the final in France can be considered as a great success.

Arsen MAGOMEDOV

Technical results

39th memorial of Henri Deglian . Nice. November 29

55 kg. 1 . Zojeir El Curac (France); 2 . Ramazi Darchidze (Georgia); 3 . Gennady Tulbya (Monaco) and Chakir Ansari (France).

60 kg. 1 . Shota Partenadze (Georgia); 2 . Antoine Massida (France); 3 . Adam Diatt (Senegal) and Valentin Papesku (Romania).

66 kg. 1 . Eric Fick (France); 2 . Omari Gurzhidze (Georgia); 3 . Kotaro Tanaka (Japan) and Frank Chamizo (Italy).

74 kg. 1 . Sivash Gudarzi (Iran); 2 . Luka Lampis (France); 3 . Zaur Efendiyev (Serbia) and Javier Beaufort (France).

84 kg. 1 . Georgy Chkhartishvili (Georgia); 2 . Armands Zvirbulis (Latvia); Stephane Martsinski (France) and Brooks Klimons (USA).

96 kg. 1 . Leon Rattigan (England); 2 . Vlad Karas (Romania); 3 . Kyle Snyder (USA) and Jack Janszen (USA).

120 kg. 1 .Sani Dinsa(Canada); 2 . Akhmadreza Abedinikham (Iran); 3 . Joseph Ryan (USA).