Azerbaijani freestyle wrestler wins gold at World Military Championship [PHOTO]
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By Laman Ismayilova
Azerbaijani freestyle wrestler Aghahuseyin Mustafayev has claimed a gold medal at the 31st World Military Championship in Skopje, Macedonia, Azertac reported.
The wrestler defeated his rival from North Korea 8-5 in the 65kg weight class final.
Another freestyler Joshgun Azimov (70kg) earned the silver medal after losing to Russian Magomed Gurbanaliyev.
The World Military Championships are a multisports event.
The championships are regularly organized by the Conseil International du Sport Militaire in each of the 26 disciplines of the sport military.
In 1995, CISM decides to break its tradition of organizing every year fifteen to twenty world championship per year by gathering all its member nations during its first Military World Games in Rome.
The games took place to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the end of the second World War and ratification of the United nations Organisation Charter
By organizing these games, CISM sent the most explicit and spectacular message of peace to the whole world.
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Laman Ismayilova is AzerNews’ staff journalist, follow her on Twitter: @Lam_Ismayilova
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