Azerbaijan’s wrestlers gain success at Junior World Championship
By Amina Nazarli
FILA Junior World Championship 2014 kicked off in Zagreb, Croatia on August 5.
The wrestlers of Greco-Roman style took the stage at the first
day of the competition.
Azerbaijan was represented by four sportsmen Ibrahim Nurullayev,
Elman Mukhtarov, Orkhan Nuriyev and Sanan Alimirzoyev.
The country won three gold medals on the first day of Greco-Roman
competition.
Mukhtarov at 60kg, the bronze medalist in Sofia last year
defeated the 2013 world champion Karen Aslanyan, (ARM) 4-1 and took
the gold medal.
Ibrahim Nurullayev at 50kg won Oleksii Zhabsky from Ukraine 9-2 in
the final. Orkhan Nuriyev at 96kg won the gold medal overcoming his
rival Seungjun Kim from Korea 2-0. Sanan Alimirzoyev lost at his
first battle.
The championship will last till August 10.
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