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By Amina Nazarli

During the past couple of days, the significant World Wrestling Tournament was under the spotlight.

The championship wrapped up in Tashkent, Uzbekistan on September 14.

On the last day of the tournament, three Azerbaijani wrestlers at 59, 71 and 98 kg weight category encountered their rivals from different countries.

Wrestler Rasul Chunayev at 71kg brought the last medal in the competition to Azerbaijan's team haul. He defeated his first two rivals, one from Japan and another one from the U.S., but could not beat Turkish Yunus Ozel. Fighting for the third place against Armenian Varsham Boranyan, Rasul claimed the bronze medal.

On the fifth day of the championship, the national sportsmen brought two medals to Azerbaijan.

Azerbaijani two Greco-Roman wrestlers Saman Tahmasibi at 85kg and Elvin Mursaliyev at 75kg won the silver and bronze medals, respectively.

Beating his rivals from Germany, China, Georgia, Saman reached the semi-final, where he defeated Ukrainian wrestler. In the final Saman faced French Melonin Noumonvi. In the decisive battle, Saman lost the game and won the silver medal.

Another Azerbaijani wrestler Elvin Mursaliyev took the bronze medal. Although Elvin lost the first game, he did not leave any chance to his subsequent rivals from Austria, Mexico and Georgia.

Thus, Azerbaijan won one gold medal (Haji Aliyev at 61kg), three silver medals (Khetag Gazyumov at 97kg, Saman Tahmasibi at 85kg and Yulia Ratkevich at 60kg) and three bronze medals (Maria Stadnik at 48kg, Rasul Chunayev at 71kg and Elvin Mursaliyev at 75kg) during the World Wrestling Tournament.

The games were held in three categories, namely Free style wrestling, Greco-Roman and Women's wrestling, bringing together more than 1,000 athletes from 80 countries.