World Championship: Heydarov and Alizade Lost, Mammadaliyev Took 7th Place

The World Judo Championship continues in Budapest, the capital of Hungary.

Idman.biz reports that 3 more athletes of the Azerbaijani national team competed on the tatami on the third day of the World Cup.

World Championship
Men
73 kg

Hidayat Heydarov faced Otari Kvantidze, originally from Georgia, representing Portugal, and stopped fighting after losing. The Olympic champion briefly wrote about this on his social network account: "Happy to be back."

Rashid Mammadaliyev, who competed in the same weight, defeated Kazbek Nagushev (UAE) and advanced to the next stage. Our judoka then defeated Georgian Lasha Shavdatuashvili. Our athlete, who lost to Baysangur Bagayev (Serbia) in the next match, had to compete for a bronze medal. Mammadaliyev, who lost to Tatsuki Ishihara in this competition, finished the World Championship in 7th place.

Women
57 kg

Fidan Alizade faced Serbian Marika Perisic. She lost the fight and said goodbye to the competition.

It should be noted that Azerbaijan is represented at the World Championship by 13 judokas in 10 weight categories. In the first two days of the competition, Ahmad Yusifov (60 kg) and Ruslan Pashayev (66 kg) in the men's competition, and Leyla Aliyeva, Konul Aliyeva (both 48 kg) and Gultaj Mammadaliyeva (52 kg) in the women's competition were defeated early and finished the competition without medals.

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