Mantas Knystautas Explained
Mantas Knystautas (born 20 May 1994) is a Lithuanian wrestler, who competes in the men's 130 kg Greco-Roman division. He won one of the bronze medals in the 130 kg event at the 2022 World Wrestling Championships held in Belgrade, Serbia.[1] [2]
Mantas was born in Klaipeda, Lithuania.[3]
Knystautas has competed 2015 European Games, but lost his first fight. Knystautas started at the 2017 World championships, but lost his first fight. Same year he won bronze at the World U23 Championships.[4]
At the 2021 European Wrestling Olympic Qualification Tournament Knystautas reached the final and qualified for 2020 Summer Olympics.[5] [6]
In 2022, Knystautas competed in the 130 kg event at the European Wrestling Championships in Budapest, Hungary. He won one of the bronze medals in his event at the Matteo Pellicone Ranking Series 2022 held in Rome, Italy.[7]
He lost his bronze medal match in the 130kg event at the 2023 European Wrestling Championships held in Zagreb, Croatia.
Notes and References
- News: Brennan . Eliott . 13 September 2022 . Olympic medallist Kayaalp returns to champion status at World Wrestling Championships . InsideTheGames.biz . 14 September 2022.
- Web site: 2022 World Wrestling Championships Results Book . https://web.archive.org/web/20220918183512/https://cdn.uww.org/s3fs-public/2022-09/final-book-2022-senior-world-championships_compressed.pdf?VersionId=zoTz_Ra8zK5EkVhfrZuDG5THXf4.3ik. . 18 September 2022 . 18 September 2022 . United World Wrestling.
- https://uww.org/athletes-results/mantas-knystautas-26049-profile
- https://uww.org/event/senior-u23-world-championships?tab=results Senior U23 World Championships
- News: Morgan. Liam. 20 March 2021. Russia and Georgia earn two Tokyo 2020 Greco-Roman quotas at Olympic qualifier. InsideTheGames.biz. 20 March 2021.
- Web site: 2021 European Wrestling Olympic Qualification Tournament Results Book. live. https://web.archive.org/web/20210324185322/https://uww.org/sites/default/files/2021-03/final-book.pdf. 24 March 2021. 24 March 2021. United World Wrestling.
- Web site: Matteo Pellicone Ranking Series 2022 Results Book . https://web.archive.org/web/20220625194934/https://cdn.uww.org/s3fs-public/2022-06/final-book-matteo_pellicone.pdf?VersionId=qzK3za9J0rNgcVjK8V3USdzHshFpyOIW . 25 June 2022 . 25 June 2022 . United World Wrestling.