Azerbaijan U-15 Freestyle Wrestling Team Becomes Champion at European Championship with Record Score

Azerbaijan's freestyle wrestling team has become the champion with a record score at the U-15 European Championship held in Caorle, Italy.

According to "Report", the decisive matches in the freestyle wrestling competition have been held, and the fight has come to an end.

Cavanshir Suleymanov (38 kg) lost to Russian Abdulla Almazov (0:10) in the final and settled for a silver medal.

Huseyn Rzazade (41 kg) became the European champion by winning the final against Russian Nikita Kondrashov with a minimal difference (7:6) in a tense match.

Ibrahim Hasanov (44 kg), who climbed to the highest step of the podium in the 41 kg category last year, was close to repeating the same success in the higher weight category. However, this time, the graduate of the Ganja wrestling school could not cope with Russian Kirill Kondrashov (0:8) in the decisive match and settled for a silver medal.

Akbar Asgarov (48 kg) lost to Russian Amir Daurov with a score of 4:5 in the final and took second place in the responsible competition. Our other representative in this weight category, Tunar Sultanzade, lost to Georgian Demetre Mortuladze with the same score in the bronze medal match.

Muraz Huseynov (57 kg) lost to Russian Abdul Isayev (0:10) in the bronze medal match, and Eljan Hasanov lost to Ukrainian Viktor Karaya (4:7) in another bronze medal match.

Mahammad Hasanli (62 kg) lost to Romanian Istvan Nagy in the final based on the last point principle (2:2) and joined the ranks of silver medalists.

Khayal Shukurlu (68 kg) won a bronze medal by defeating Armenian Shahen Martirosyan with a score of 7:4.

Elgun Karimli (85 kg) won a determined victory over Georgian Mate Oniani in the final – 11:9. With this, our wrestler added the 2nd gold medal to the team's account.

Thus, our team, which won 2 gold, 4 silver, and 1 bronze medal at the European Championship, became the European champion for the second time in the team standings with 161 points. Our team surpassed Armenia, which took 2nd place, by 47 points. Ukraine (91) closed the top three.

It should be noted that 161 points is a new record in this age group of our freestyle wrestling. The best indicator before this was recorded in 2023. Two years ago, our team took 2nd place with 145 points.