Belarusian athletes won two bronze medals on the second day of the World Sambo Championships in Tashkent. The two-time world champion defeated the Dutch Bo Steppers, but in the quarter-finals she was weaker than her opponent from Russia, Karina Cherban. In the return to gold tournament, Belarusians beat athletes from Moldova and Mongolia. Arseni Malitsky (over 98 kg) became the bronze medalist for men. He beat athletes from Israel, Nepal and the Netherlands and lost only to the Russian Stefan Soldankov. In the battle for bronze, our athlete defeated the Ukrainian Alexei Moiseyev.