Today, 3 more Azerbaijani wrestlers will join the competition at the World Championship held in Zagreb, the capital of Croatia. Sport24.az reports that the first opponents of Nihat Mammadli (60 kg) and Ulvi Ganizade (72 kg), members of our Greco-Roman wrestling team, will be determined after the results of the qualifying stage.
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Murad Ahmadiev will face Italian athlete Nikoloz Kakhelashvili in the first match.
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Eldeniz Azizli, who lost in the semi-finals yesterday, will have a decisive match for the bronze medal today. Our wrestler will face the winner of the duel between Ulan Muratbek Uulu from Kyrgyzstan and Artyom Delenau from Moldova.
It should be noted that the Azerbaijani national team already has 4 medals. Freestyle wrestlers Giorgi Meshvildishvili (125 kg) won silver, while Nureddin Novruzov (61 kg), Arseniy Djioyev (86 kg) and Osman Nurmagomedov (92 kg) won bronze medals.