Tag: Andrey Sharkoff / Andrey Sharkov

VIDEO: Armwrestling with chains attached to the armwrestling table: Farid Usmanov Vs. Alexey Semerenko│2007

Armwrestling with chains attached to the armwrestling table: Farid Usmanov Vs. Alexey Semerenko – 2007 │ Source: Andrey Sharkoff
Armwrestling with chains attached to the armwrestling table: Farid Usmanov Vs. Alexey Semerenko – 2007 │ Source: Andrey Sharkoff

Original –Andrey Sharkoff │Google Translate:

An interesting case: So far in 2007, during the struggle for “Vendette” two giants armsportu Alexei Semerenko and Farid Usmanov, who burst on the scene a table holding bolts had to immediately go out of the situation and we stretched out on the chain and rope legs and held armstola all the way, oh, it was not easy! Never seen anything like it))))))

Original –Andrey Sharkoff │Google Translate

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Семеренко-Усманов

Source: WWWDozor

VIDEO: Alexey Semerenko Vs. Farid Usmanov (later Ferit Osmanli) Armfight Vendetta

CAUTION: AMIRANZ ARMSPORT ACADEMY! OR “TOURNAMENTS-MIRAGES”

One week ago I posted the article Andrey Sharkov, Willy Deneumostier and others at International Armwrestling Championships, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia │ 8-11 Dec. 2012 with some pictures, but because of the Russian language it was very hard to understand what was all about, online translators are not very good.

Now Andrey Sharkoff gave me a message with the article in English language on Armpower.NET. Many thanks to Andrey for the English version of his article !

I know it is long story, but I believe all the armwrestlers should read it, because they need to find out what happens in our small armwrestling community, how some people take advantage of others:

 

CAUTION: AMIRANZ ARMSPORT ACADEMY! OR “TOURNAMENTS-MIRAGES”

My soul has yearned to write this article, so I decided to share with you my unexpected experience of “sports tourism”. Sit back, it is going to be a long story.

It all started great: after a five-year absence from international armwrestling competitions I unexpectedly put up a good fight at the World Championships 2012 in Brazil, having taken the 5th place in the heavyweight category (24 competitors participated in the tournament). Between 2001 and 2006 I achieved many successes at world championships, and even at the World Cup in 2003 I managed to win an award. What I want to say is that armwrestling is like a drug, if you’ve tried it once, it’s very hard to give it up. I didn’t stop completely, I coached athletes and organized competitions, but deep down I wanted to fight. Having received a new impetus to training, to work and an air of self-confidence, with fanatical zeal, I started looking for the next tournament to take part in. And then something interesting appeared on the horizon: while surfing the net I came across an advertisement of the International Armwrestling Championships Malaysia 2012, which were to be held on 8-11 December in Kuala Lumpur, the capital of Malaysia. In addition to that two days prior to the tournament, from 6 to 7 December, there was to take place a technical seminar for referees. On the official website it was stated that all the events were held under the auspices of the WAF (World Armwrestling Federation), which was confirmed by certificates issued by the International Federation of Armwrestling and photographs showing the management of Amiranz Armsport Academy (AAA) with the WAF’s General Secretary – Willy Denemoster of Belgian origin. All these indicated that AAA was the official representative of WAF in Malaysia. It seemed very encouraging, but then I remembered lots of negative comments about the tournaments in Malaysia. In fact, digging in the archives of “Iron World”, I found an article authored by Vasily Kuznetsov (http://www.ironworld.ru/news/16314/), according to which  in 2007 Malaysia was to hold a tournament «Malaysia Open» with a prize fund of about 100 thousand dollars, but the competition was cancelled 8 days before its scheduled opening. This incident provoked negative comments worldwide. Having learned the worrying information, I immediately addressed a question to the organizers of the new tournament. I managed to contact the Vice-President of Amiranz Armsport Academy – Ayu Emelda Othman. In correspondence with her, I was told that the AAA was a new armwrestling federation of Malaysia and it should not be identified with the previous tournament. I was assured that a new tournament would be held at a high level.

So I made up my mind – I decided to go. A few factors influenced my decision. First of all, I’ve never been in Malaysia, I love travelling, plus I wanted to compete in a big tournament very much. Of course the prize also played a role: 1st place – $ 1500, 2nd place – 1200 $, 3rd place – $ 800. And since I also write for the magazine “Iron World”, I immediately thought that I would find some interesting materials for an article.

Travelling only on your own is boring, so I began to get together a team of the best armwrestlers. Denis Tsyplenkov was the first person I called. Dan said he had just got back from the U.S., the flight was very long and he didn’t like it. Besides, he was to begin his preparation for A1 – a Russian Open tournament. Also Andrey Pushkar and Sergey Tokarev refused to go explaining that they had a heavy workload. In fact, I think the guys were not interested in the prize, as most of it covered only the cost of air travel. It’s understandable, of course. Personally, I wasn’t disappointed, because it meant that I could gain more for myself. “His greed was his undoing” – you’ll say, and you’d be right, but we’ll get to that later on …. It turned out that the guys had made the right choice.
Before I bought the tickets for myself and a friend who decided to go there with me to participate in the referee seminar, we had officially been registered as participants of the competition on the website. But seven days prior to departure, I contacted the vice president of Amiranz Armsport Academy – Ayu Emelda Othman again to make sure that the event would take place and the value of the prizes hadn’t changed. The answer was positive. Although I sent messages to various representatives of AAA, whose addresses were indicated on the official website, only Ayu Emelda Othman would answer. Since we couldn’t wait any longer, we bought the tickets. We trusted the organizers and were certain that they would meet us at the airport and take to the hotel. I could see the pictures of the cup and the tournament paraphernalia with logos on the Internet, so deep down I was almost convinced that everything was going to be alright. I was more worried if our flight would take place as planned on December 4, since Kiev and Moscow were covered with snow.

And then came the day – December 4. Having miraculously travelled by train through snow-covered roads of Kiev to the airport “Borispol” and knowing that flights were not cancelled, we boarded the plane. I was already sitting in the cabin and going to switch off the phone before the take-off, when my wife called to tell me shocking news… No, she wasn’t leaving me for another man (just kidding). My wife told me that a few minutes before, the organizers announced on the official website of the Federation that the tournament was cancelled and postponed for two months – it was to be held on 23-24 February. You should have seen my face at that moment. Knowing that no one would reimburse the expenses incurred – we had paid for the plane tickets and booked the hotel, I tried to calm down , in the belief that it was a misunderstanding and everything would turn out well and I would fight in a few days. At heart I cherished the hope that the organizers would meet us at the airport in Kuala Lumpur and explain what had happened. But I was wrong. No one awaited us at the airport.

And there we were – two tourists with their bags on their shoulders in a totally unfamiliar city without knowing a word in Malay. We checked in at the hotel and continued to investigate the cause of the incident, hoping that it was just a dream. But the organizers vanished without trace. Fortunately, thanks to the Internet, my Facebook friends and the fact that armwrestling had fans all over the world I managed to contact and meet with Zil Fadli. He was the president of the armwrestling federation of Kuala Lumpur, a great guy, who was not involved in the organization of the tournament, but tried his best to help us. Malaysian sportsmen finally told me that the tournament wouldn’t take place, and many of them were confident about it from the start, as the head of the Amiranz Armsport Academy was a businessman Amir Ahmad. Neither was he involved in armwrestling, nor had he ever fought or trained a single athlete. He was, of course, interested in making money. He’s like a “parasite” who only wants to gain money at the organizers and athletes’ expense! The scheme is simple – they announce a tournament with some prize and entry fees, which, in theory, should cover the cost of the prize. At the same time they  are selling the package “flight + hotel”, and of course, expect sponsorship money. But, while getting involved in organizing such a big event, people need to understand that they are taking responsibility and must provide athletes with a guarantee. They have to be aware of the fact that athletes have been preparing for the competition for several months, have spent a lot of energy, time and money. And then Amir Ahmad said the official reason for postponing the competition was that too few athletes declared participation in the tournament. It was 4 days before the tournament. I think it is a crime against the athletes. And how come these people can hide behind the logo of WAF? They’ve just disappeared without a word of apology. They disappeared again just to come up with another interesting idea, taking advantage of people’s love for armwrestling. I haven’t lost money, nor a medal. The worst thing that they took from me was an armwrestling feast, of which I had dreamt for a few months.

But I was a bit lucky – my dream came true eventually, though not completely. I struggled in a tournament in Malaysia thanks to Zilu. He gathered all the athletes, who also came to Malaysia and were out of work – these were armwrestlers from Egypt, Pakistan, Australia, Singapore, Indonesia and Thailand. On December 9 he took us to Malacca, a place situated 120 km from the capital, where the National championship was held. It was a lucky coincidence. I won the championship, but the nasty aftertaste remained. Of course, special thanks to the President of the Federation of Kuala Lumpur, Zil Fadli, as he tried to smooth over our bad impressions. Of course, the people were friendly, hospitable and the city of Kuala Lumpur was very beautiful. But the Amiranz Armsport Academy left us with negative feelings. Malaysia became a member of the World Armwrestling Federation only in March 2012 and a few months later they made such a bad mistake. I think WAF should take the most radical measures, e.g. deprive them of the right to host armwrestling tournaments, or at least – fine them, and at best – make efforts to ensure that athletes avoid tournaments organized by Amir Ahmad. I will inform the new president of WAF – Hadzhitodorov Assen about this situation and I will expect an official response from him.

Amiranz Armsport Academy announced that the International Armwrestling Championships in Malaysia are postponed till February. I want to warn all the armwrestling fans: I am sure that this is deception and yet another lie. Be careful, learn from others’ mistakes.

Author: Andrey Sharkov

Source: Armpower.NET

 

Andrey Sharkov, Willy Deneumostier and others at International Armwrestling Championships, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia │ 8-11 Dec. 2012

 

International Armwrestling Championships – Malaysia – 8-11 Dec. 2012 

IMPORTANT UPDATE: Thanks to Andrey Sharkoff, now we also have the English translation which is very important CAUTION: AMIRANZ ARMSPORT ACADEMY! OR “TOURNAMENTS-MIRAGES” :

 

CAUTION: AMIRANZ ARMSPORT ACADEMY! OR “TOURNAMENTS-MIRAGES”

My soul has yearned to write this article, so I decided to share with you my unexpected experience of “sports tourism”. Sit back, it is going to be a long story.

It all started great: after a five-year absence from international armwrestling competitions I unexpectedly put up a good fight at the World Championships 2012 in Brazil, having taken the 5th place in the heavyweight category (24 competitors participated in the tournament). Between 2001 and 2006 I achieved many successes at world championships, and even at the World Cup in 2003 I managed to win an award. What I want to say is that armwrestling is like a drug, if you’ve tried it once, it’s very hard to give it up. I didn’t stop completely, I coached athletes and organized competitions, but deep down I wanted to fight. Having received a new impetus to training, to work and an air of self-confidence, with fanatical zeal, I started looking for the next tournament to take part in. And then something interesting appeared on the horizon: while surfing the net I came across an advertisement of the International Armwrestling Championships Malaysia 2012, which were to be held on 8-11 December in Kuala Lumpur, the capital of Malaysia. In addition to that two days prior to the tournament, from 6 to 7 December, there was to take place a technical seminar for referees. On the official website it was stated that all the events were held under the auspices of the WAF (World Armwrestling Federation), which was confirmed by certificates issued by the International Federation of Armwrestling and photographs showing the management of Amiranz Armsport Academy (AAA) with the WAF’s General Secretary – Willy Denemoster of Belgian origin. All these indicated that AAA was the official representative of WAF in Malaysia. It seemed very encouraging, but then I remembered lots of negative comments about the tournaments in Malaysia. In fact, digging in the archives of “Iron World”, I found an article authored by Vasily Kuznetsov (http://www.ironworld.ru/news/16314/), according to which  in 2007 Malaysia was to hold a tournament «Malaysia Open» with a prize fund of about 100 thousand dollars, but the competition was cancelled 8 days before its scheduled opening. This incident provoked negative comments worldwide. Having learned the worrying information, I immediately addressed a question to the organizers of the new tournament. I managed to contact the Vice-President of Amiranz Armsport Academy – Ayu Emelda Othman. In correspondence with her, I was told that the AAA was a new armwrestling federation of Malaysia and it should not be identified with the previous tournament. I was assured that a new tournament would be held at a high level.

So I made up my mind – I decided to go. A few factors influenced my decision. First of all, I’ve never been in Malaysia, I love travelling, plus I wanted to compete in a big tournament very much. Of course the prize also played a role: 1st place – $ 1500, 2nd place – 1200 $, 3rd place – $ 800. And since I also write for the magazine “Iron World”, I immediately thought that I would find some interesting materials for an article.

Travelling only on your own is boring, so I began to get together a team of the best armwrestlers. Denis Tsyplenkov was the first person I called. Dan said he had just got back from the U.S., the flight was very long and he didn’t like it. Besides, he was to begin his preparation for A1 – a Russian Open tournament. Also Andrey Pushkar and Sergey Tokarev refused to go explaining that they had a heavy workload. In fact, I think the guys were not interested in the prize, as most of it covered only the cost of air travel. It’s understandable, of course. Personally, I wasn’t disappointed, because it meant that I could gain more for myself. “His greed was his undoing” – you’ll say, and you’d be right, but we’ll get to that later on …. It turned out that the guys had made the right choice.
Before I bought the tickets for myself and a friend who decided to go there with me to participate in the referee seminar, we had officially been registered as participants of the competition on the website. But seven days prior to departure, I contacted the vice president of Amiranz Armsport Academy – Ayu Emelda Othman again to make sure that the event would take place and the value of the prizes hadn’t changed. The answer was positive. Although I sent messages to various representatives of AAA, whose addresses were indicated on the official website, only Ayu Emelda Othman would answer. Since we couldn’t wait any longer, we bought the tickets. We trusted the organizers and were certain that they would meet us at the airport and take to the hotel. I could see the pictures of the cup and the tournament paraphernalia with logos on the Internet, so deep down I was almost convinced that everything was going to be alright. I was more worried if our flight would take place as planned on December 4, since Kiev and Moscow were covered with snow.

And then came the day – December 4. Having miraculously travelled by train through snow-covered roads of Kiev to the airport “Borispol” and knowing that flights were not cancelled, we boarded the plane. I was already sitting in the cabin and going to switch off the phone before the take-off, when my wife called to tell me shocking news… No, she wasn’t leaving me for another man (just kidding). My wife told me that a few minutes before, the organizers announced on the official website of the Federation that the tournament was cancelled and postponed for two months – it was to be held on 23-24 February. You should have seen my face at that moment. Knowing that no one would reimburse the expenses incurred – we had paid for the plane tickets and booked the hotel, I tried to calm down , in the belief that it was a misunderstanding and everything would turn out well and I would fight in a few days. At heart I cherished the hope that the organizers would meet us at the airport in Kuala Lumpur and explain what had happened. But I was wrong. No one awaited us at the airport.

And there we were – two tourists with their bags on their shoulders in a totally unfamiliar city without knowing a word in Malay. We checked in at the hotel and continued to investigate the cause of the incident, hoping that it was just a dream. But the organizers vanished without trace. Fortunately, thanks to the Internet, my Facebook friends and the fact that armwrestling had fans all over the world I managed to contact and meet with Zil Fadli. He was the president of the armwrestling federation of Kuala Lumpur, a great guy, who was not involved in the organization of the tournament, but tried his best to help us. Malaysian sportsmen finally told me that the tournament wouldn’t take place, and many of them were confident about it from the start, as the head of the Amiranz Armsport Academy was a businessman Amir Ahmad. Neither was he involved in armwrestling, nor had he ever fought or trained a single athlete. He was, of course, interested in making money. He’s like a “parasite” who only wants to gain money at the organizers and athletes’ expense! The scheme is simple – they announce a tournament with some prize and entry fees, which, in theory, should cover the cost of the prize. At the same time they  are selling the package “flight + hotel”, and of course, expect sponsorship money. But, while getting involved in organizing such a big event, people need to understand that they are taking responsibility and must provide athletes with a guarantee. They have to be aware of the fact that athletes have been preparing for the competition for several months, have spent a lot of energy, time and money. And then Amir Ahmad said the official reason for postponing the competition was that too few athletes declared participation in the tournament. It was 4 days before the tournament. I think it is a crime against the athletes. And how come these people can hide behind the logo of WAF? They’ve just disappeared without a word of apology. They disappeared again just to come up with another interesting idea, taking advantage of people’s love for armwrestling. I haven’t lost money, nor a medal. The worst thing that they took from me was an armwrestling feast, of which I had dreamt for a few months.

But I was a bit lucky – my dream came true eventually, though not completely. I struggled in a tournament in Malaysia thanks to Zilu. He gathered all the athletes, who also came to Malaysia and were out of work – these were armwrestlers from Egypt, Pakistan, Australia, Singapore, Indonesia and Thailand. On December 9 he took us to Malacca, a place situated 120 km from the capital, where the National championship was held. It was a lucky coincidence. I won the championship, but the nasty aftertaste remained. Of course, special thanks to the President of the Federation of Kuala Lumpur, Zil Fadli, as he tried to smooth over our bad impressions. Of course, the people were friendly, hospitable and the city of Kuala Lumpur was very beautiful. But the Amiranz Armsport Academy left us with negative feelings. Malaysia became a member of the World Armwrestling Federation only in March 2012 and a few months later they made such a bad mistake. I think WAF should take the most radical measures, e.g. deprive them of the right to host armwrestling tournaments, or at least – fine them, and at best – make efforts to ensure that athletes avoid tournaments organized by Amir Ahmad. I will inform the new president of WAF – Hadzhitodorov Assen about this situation and I will expect an official response from him.

Amiranz Armsport Academy announced that the International Armwrestling Championships in Malaysia are postponed till February. I want to warn all the armwrestling fans: I am sure that this is deception and yet another lie. Be careful, learn from others’ mistakes.

Author: Andrey Sharkov

Source: Armpower.NET

 

Willy Deneumostier (WAF General Secretary) – Amir Ahmad (President of Amiranz Armsport Academy, Malaysia) │ Photo source: IronWorld.ru

 

Willy Deneumostier (WAF General Secretary) – Ayu Emelda Othman (Vice President of Amiranz Armsport Academy, Malaysia) │ Photo source: IronWorld.ru 

 

WAF Asian Armwrestling Technical & Refereeing Seminar in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia │Photo source: IronWorld.ru

 

Andrey Sharkoff – Zil Fadli (President of Kuala Lumpur Armsport Federation)  │ Photo source: IronWorld.ru

 

Andrey Sharkov VS James Anes (Absolute Indonesia Champion)
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Source: Андрей Шарков

LAUNCHING of INTERNATIONAL ARMSPORT CHAMPIONSHIP-MALAYSIA 2012 (IACM 2012)
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Source: SharonJane Liau

VIDEO: Coverage of the tournament “Kozatsky force 2012” – 22 December 2012 │A detailed report by IronWorld.ru

репортаж о турнире “Козацкая сила 2012” (coverage of the tournament “Kozatsky force 2012″)
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Source: VAF ARMWRESTLING │ ironworld.ru 

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Original – ironworld.ru │ Google Translate:

” 24/12/2012

   December 22, 2012 in Kiev, Dance & Karaoke Club «Manilow”, was already traditional tournament armsportu “Kozatsky force.” From year to year the best organization attracts top athletes from all over Ukraine. Again, despite the snow and freezing temperatures, about 80 athletes competed in the day for the medals and cash prizes. The tournament was held in the fight for the right hand in six weight divisions, namely absolyutka women and 70 kg, 80 kg, 90 kg, 90 kg and absolyutka men. It was nice that the tournament came armsportu stars such as Andrey Pushkar, Viktor Ilyushin, Sergey Tokarev, Taras Ivakin. This increased the prestige of action and gives hope that the audience will see a real struggle professionals. 
  A small number of participants – 6 athletes in the open category for women – does not facilitate the task of winning medals. Number of offset quality. Although a clear favorite of all was the same – it is a multiple world champion, Merited Master of Sports Viktor Ilyushin from Kharkov. But, as it turned out, her victory in the tournament was given easy, as its main rival, the sportswoman of Vinnitsa Dyachenko Oksana still managed to stop the attack Victoria. Their fights seemed not like a woman prolonged and persistent, like, and fight for the semi-finals between athletes Rozhischenko Irina from Kiev and Ternovskaya Marina from Odessa. In professional and spectacular game won by Irina.Women in the day, of course, pleased with the level of their training and the mood to fight, to watch their fights were interesting. In total, were distributed as follows: 
1 – Viktor Ilyushin  
2 – Dyachenko Oksana 
3 – Irina Rozhischenko 
 In the largest category – 70 kg for men – serving 23 athlete. Were able to reach to the top of the following athletes: 
1 – Michael Novak 
2 – Vladimir Gnatenko 
3 – Arthur Musayelyan 
  as calm was not in the category of 80 kg in men, each of the 18 athletes trying to show everyone what he can do. Places won: 
1 – Sergei Pankovets 
2 – Cherpita Bogdan 
3 – Zheltonozhko Oleksandr 
  the category of 90 kg in the day was declared 11 people, but it was different participation in it several top athletes, on “Cossack force” arrived: multiple world champion armsportu, honored Master of Sports of Kharkov Taras Ivakin, silver medalist of the World Cup this year, among the professionals in the 86 kg category Mher Musayelyan from Nikolayev, Odessa hope federation armsport, winner of several tournaments last Ukrainian Margarint Peter. The intrigue is that no one knew in what form came Taras Ivakin and between Mher Musaelyan and Peter Magrarintom armfayt recently passed, which won a surprise victory Peter. Who was this “Bermuda Triangle” will be the winner?Especially since you can not shoot off the other athletes, because everyone came to win. From this confrontation came undefeated Mher Musayelyan he convincingly defeated Peter and Taras. Maybe this was affected by that Mher first performed with weight 87 kg. And the story that happened to him at Nemiroff, where he did not drive away the only 200 grams, was not included in the planned 78 kg category and fought to a category above – 86 kg, and spoke well, but was exhausted race weight, led him to believe in themselves and act in a more heavy weight category. 
1 – Mher Musayelyan 
2 – Taras Ivakin 
3 – Peter Margarint 
  + 90 kg decorated two Ukrainian super giant, two distinguished master of sports, one of the best world armsportsmenov Andrey Pushkar and Sergey Tokarev. And I think no one in doubt that all of the other 13 participants in this category will compete for the bronze medal. It happened. Andrei gold, silver, Sergei, well, and in the fight for the bronze unbeaten winner kievlyanin Dmitry Bondarenko. 
1 – Andrey Pushkar 
2 – Sergey Tokarev 
3 – Dmitry Bondarenko 
 armsportivnogo most interesting event of the festival was the absolute category. 12 best of the best athletes championship meet, no matter the status or the weight categories. As in the heavyweight division, the first two places were for the multiple world champion and European champion Andrey Pushkar world Sergey Tokarev. But the fight for the bronze turned serious. Here in severe and persistent bouts, especially in the fight for the semi-finals, a victory could win a world-class athlete, world vice-champion in 2001 Andrei Sharkov from Simferopol, who after many years returned to the big armsport, and as we can see, quite successfully. 
1 – Andrey Pushkar 
2 – Sergey Tokarev 
3 – Andrei Sharkov 
  organizers awarded cash prizes, to the delight of the participants, the top five. 
 At the end, all pleased and surprised Andrey Pushkar, which in the eyes of the astonished audience could twist the two nails in a knot Sotk . 
  I would like to express my gratitude to people who have held the tournament “Kozatsky force”, as he was again on the level: the president of the federation armsportu Dzisyak Vlad, vice-president of the federation armsportu Kirilyuk Dmitry, secretary of the federation armsportu Rzheschenko Irina for working in their New Year’s holiday armsportivny .     Photos from the event HERE .
Author: Andrei Sharkov “
Original – ironworld.ru │ Google Translate
Andrey Sharkoff – Kozatsky Force 2012
Andrey Pushkar vs. Sergiy Tokarev – Kozatsky Force 2012
Andrey Pushkar – Nail bending – Kozatsky Force 2012

More photos from the event: ironworld.ru

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Related article – PHOTOS: Kozatska Power 2012 │22 December 2012

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PHOTOS: Kozatska Power 2012 │22 December 2012

Sergiy Tokarev, Andrey Pushkar, Taras Ivakin, Andrey Sharkoff were at this tournament. In the Open category Sergey Tokarev managed to win one match against Andrey Pushkar. But in the end, Andrey Pushkar was the overall winner.

Original –POWER INSIDE – The first Ukrainian magazine about power.│ Translate:

” December 22 in Kiev the grand tournament armsportu “Kozatska Power 2012.” 
It so happened that armrestlery not that weak guys and girls in this sport, too, with no small amount of power – all of them managed to survive the “end of the world” this Friday . So they decided on this fight, so to speak “in Kozatska” 
They succeeded. The tournament came top arm wrestlers of the world: Andrey Pushkar, Sergey Tokarev, Viktor Ilyushin. Just taking part such household names as: Taras Ivakin Andrei Sharkov. 
Overall, everything was not as usual. 
Taras Ivakin acted 90kg category. In the final, he lost a fight with Mher Musealyanom. Taras defied Mher hand and he got the silver medal. This turn of events no one expected. 
Absolyuteke In Sergey Tokarev won one battle in Pushkar. What has been seen very surprised and sparked intrigue in the middle of all. But it was not there, Andrey Pushkar without Cup champion simply would not have left Kiev. Well, he decided not zaderzhevatsya for long in the capital of Ukraine and in the super final booster arm Sergey Tokarev a roller table. In all there were smiles on their faces. After all, everyone loves, that all went according to plan)) “

Original –POWER INSIDE – The first Ukrainian magazine about power.

Sergiy Tokarev (2) – Andrey Pushkar (1) – Andrey Sharkoff (3)
Taras Ivakin
Andrey Sharkoff
Sergiy Tokarev
Andrey Pushkar
Andrey Sharkoff
Andrey Sharkoff – Sergiy Tokarev
Sergiy Tokarev – Andrey Pushkar
Sergiy Tokarev – Andrey Pushkar
Sergiy Tokarev – Andrey Pushkar
Taras Ivakin
Sergiy Tokarev – Andrey Pushkar
Taras Ivakin

More photos: POWER INSIDE – The first Ukrainian magazine about power.