WARSAW, Poland — University of Michigan graduate student Myles Amine captured a bronze medal at 86kg/189 pounds at the European Championships on Wednesday (April 21) at the Arena COS Torwar.
Amine, who wrestles for San Marino internationally, defeated Slovakia’s Boris Makoev, 6-4, in the medal match. He scored first and last in the bout, finishing on a single leg in the opening 15 seconds before scoring four unanswered points in the second period. Makov, a 2017 world silver medalist, took the lead with points off of scrambles late in the first and early in the second, but Amine responded with a reattack go behind midway through the latter frame and iced it with another in the closing seconds.
It was Amine’s third straight European medal, adding to his silver at the 2020 championships and bronze at the 2019 games, while Makoev represents the fourth world medalist that Amine has defeated over the last two years.
Amine opened the tournament with a 4-0 decision against France’s Akhmed Aibuev, scoring a takedown in each period, before falling to a familiar opponent in Russia’s Artur Naifonov, 2-0, off of two passivity points in the semifinals. Naifonov, a world bronze medalist and now two-time European champion, previously defeated Amine 6-0 and 4-0.
Amine, as well as fellow U-M graduate student Stevan Micic, is already qualified for the Tokyo Olympic Games after his fifth-place finish at the 2019 World Championships.
