Armwrestling: Kazakhstan woman wins World Armwrestling Championship in Poland

Olga Shlizhevskaya. Personal archive photo

Kazakhstan wrestler Olga Shlizhevskaya has won the World Armwrestling Championship in Poland, Vesti.kz reports.The competition was held on September 1-8 in Gdynia city. More than 1 000 armwrestlers from 44 countries participated in the championship. Shlizhevskaya had no equals in the -65kg division. Olga Shlizhevskaya is a multiple champion of Kazakhstan and 15-time champion of Asia. She also won a bronze medal at the World Championship in 2009. Armwrestler Rustam Malikov from Kazakhstan became a two-time world champion in armwrestling in 2012.