Report.az
Rashad Rasullu, Executive Vice-President of the Azerbaijan Judo Federation (AJF), commented on the performance of the national team at the World Championship held in Budapest, the capital of Hungary.
The AJF official gave an explanation to "Report" about this.
He considered the performance of the national team satisfactory:
"We finished the competition with 3 bronze medals. Also, one of our judokas took fifth place and another took seventh place. We consider these results satisfactory. The record for the number of medals among men was repeated. As in 2017, we won 3 medals this time as well.
At the same time, the competition showed that there are still certain points that we need to work on. In particular, the fact that our athletes lost matches in the last seconds, in which they were ahead, showed us that we need to work more seriously on some points. Relevant changes will be made in the training process in this direction".
It should be noted that Azerbaijan was represented at the World Cup by 13 judokas (9 men, 4 women) in 10 weight categories in the individual competition. Zelim Tchkaev (81 kg), Eljan Hajiyev (90 kg) and Zelim Kotsoev (100 kg) won bronze medals.
In the team competition, our representatives lost to Germany in the 1/8 finals - 1:4.
