Armenian Arutyunyan heckled as misses wrestling gold

By Tom Hayward BAKU (Reuters) - Armenian Migran Arutyunyan failed to win his nation's first European Games gold medal, losing in the final of the men's 66kg Greco-Roman wrestling, much to the delight of a vociferous Azeri crowd on Sunday. Silver medallist Arutyunyan was subjected to a hostile reception from home spectators who chanted 'Azerbaijan, Azerbaijan' and cheered wildly for his Russian opponent and gold medallist Artem Surkov throughout an electric bout. Relations between neighbours Azerbaijan and Armenia have been stretched for decades due to a war and disputes over the Nagorno-Karabakh region following the breakup of the Soviet Union.
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