Lent.az
The U-20 European Wrestling Championship has started in Caorle, Italy.
Lent.az reports that Greco-Roman wrestlers opened the continental championship.
On the first day, 5 athletes of the Azerbaijani national team competed, and 3 of them qualified for the semi-finals. All three of them advanced to the finals.
U-20 European Championship
Greco-Roman wrestling
55 kg
Turan Dashdamirov advanced to the semi-finals by defeating Georgian Koba Karumidze on the last point (4:4) and Armenian Levon Ghazaryan based on the first point principle (1:1). In the semi-final, Turan wrestled with Ukrainian Nazariy Babinski. Our wrestler defeated his opponent with a score of 3:1 and became a finalist.
63 kg
Tural Ahmadov defeated Italian Emanuele Pollino with a full advantage (8:0), Bulgarian Kristiyan Milenkov 4:0, and Hungarian Bende Olash 3:1. He faced Greek Marios Kapantais in the semi-final. Our wrestler won with a full advantage of 11:1 and qualified for the decisive match.
77 kg
Davud Mammadov advanced to the semi-finals by defeating Moldovan Konstantin Taska with a full advantage (11:0) and Turkish Yusuf Tosun based on the last point principle (3:3). Davud competed with Armenian Samvel Terteryan for a place in the final. Mammadov was stronger with a score of 4:1 and got a chance to compete for the gold medal.
87 kg
Orkhan Hajiyev lost to Romanian Gabriel Stana 1:4 in the qualifying round.
130 kg
Mazaim Mardanov lost to Austrian Leonard Junger in the 1/4 final based on the first point principle (1:1).
It should be noted that the European Championship will end on July 6.
