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National wrestlers win three medals

16 August 2019 10:56 (UTC+04:00)
National wrestlers win three medals

By Mirsaid Ibrahimzade

Junior World Wrestling Championships 2019 is being held in Tallinn, Estonia, from August 12 to August 18.

Azerbaijani freestyle wrestlers won three bronze medals at the tournament.

Competing in the category of 74 kg, the national freestyle wrestler Hajimurad Hajiyev started his way with victories over Goga Mamiauri (Georgia, 7:2) and Georgios Kougioumtsidis (Greece, 12:2).

In semi-final, Hajiyev lost to David Aaron Carr (the U.S., 0:10). At the end, he managed to gain a bronze medal by winning Russia’s David Betanov with a score of 7:0.

The second bronze was gained by Azerbaijani freestyle wrestler Turan Bayramov in the category of 65kg. He beat Amiran Vakhtangashvili (Georgia, 6: 0) and Yahya Abdullah Thomas (the U.S., 9: 1), but lost to Iranian Amirhossein Azim Maghsoudi (7: 7, defeat in the number of penalty points) in the quarterfinals.

In the match for bronze, Bayramov beat Ahmet Salim Yigit from Turkey with a score of 8:0.

The third bronze medal was won by Abubakr Abakarov. In the weight category of 79 kg, he beat Aaron Brooks (the U.S., 5: 3), but then was defeated by Amakhad Tashukhadzhiev (Russia, 3: 5).

Then, in the repechage stage, Abakarov beat Salvatore Diana (Italy, 15:1) and Yudai Takahashi (Japan, 10:0). The Azerbaijani wrestler grabbed bronze after a victory over Armenian Arman Avagyan (6: 4).

Wrestling remains the most popular sport in Azerbaijan and it is overseen by the National Wrestling Federation established in 1993.

The Rio Games opened a new page in wrestling of Azerbaijan. The country became one of the two nations continuously increasing the number of medals achieved in the last five consecutive Games.

Azerbaijan left Rio de Janeiro with a total of 18 medals - nine of them came from the Azerbaijani wrestling team.

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Mirsaid Ibrahimzade is AzerNews’ staff journalist, follow him on Twitter: @MirsaidIbrahim1

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