European Championship: Kotsoiev wins silver medal, Kokauri gets chance to win bronze - UPDATED

The European Judo Championship continues.

Idman.biz reports that three judokas of the Azerbaijani national team competed on the tatami on the fourth day of the competition held in Podroritsa, the capital of Montenegro.

Our Olympic champion Zelim Kotsoiev will start his first test after Paris-2024. Ushangi Kokauri and Nigar Suleymanova also competed on the last day of the individual competitions.

Men
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Zelim Kotsoiev started the fight from the 2nd stage. At the start, he defeated Michael Aristos (Cyprus), followed by Maksims Duinovs (Latvia). Our Olympic champion faced Anton Savitski (Ukraine) in the semi-finals and won his next victory. In the final, he tested his strength with Georgian Ilya Sulamanidze, whom he defeated in Paris-2024. Zelim lost with the yuko trick and won the silver medal of the European Championship.

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Ushangi Kokauri faced Patrik Broniec (Poland). Our judoka, who won, was better than Marius Fizel (Slovakia) in the 1/8 finals, and Recep Ergin (Turkey) in the next match. Kokauri lost to Valeri Endovitskiy (IJF) in the semi-finals. Our representative will compete with Erik Abramov (Germany) for the bronze medal.

Women
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Nigar Suleymanova lost to Sofia Somkhishvili (Georgia) in the first match.

It should be noted that our team won 4 bronze medals in the first 3 days of the competition. Ahmad Yusifov took the honorary podium in the 60 kg, Rashid Mammadaliyev in the 73 kg, Zelim Tchkaev in the 81 kg, and Murad Fatiyev in the 90 kg weight categories.

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