Report.az
The Azerbaijani national team finished the U-17 World Championship held in Athens, the capital of Greece, with 1 gold and 3 bronze medals.
According to "Report" referring to the press service of the Wrestling Federation, our wrestlers competed for medals in 4 weight categories on the last day of the competition.
Two of them rose to the third step of the podium.
Hasan Hasanov (60 kg) won confident victories over Greek Pavlos Ntiantiadis and Kyrgyz Ulukman Jekšenkulov (7:2) in consolation matches. Our compatriot won a bronze medal by defeating Canadian Nathan Nash with a minimal difference (5:4) in the decisive match.
Ramal Mirhuseynov (51 kg) lost to Indian Danraj Jamnik with a score of 4:7 in the consolation match.
Rashad Veysalov (71 kg) won against Georgian Koba Goquadze with a score of 12:10 in the first consolation match, but lost to Uzbek Farrukhbek Jumanazarov by "pin" in the second consolation match.
Said Pashayev (92 kg) was stronger than Ukrainian Samir Ibishev in the consolation match - 2:0. Our European champion became the world's third by defeating Kazakh Beibaris Yergali with a score of 5:3 in the match for the bronze medal.
The previous day, Huseyn Ismayilov (65 kg) became the world champion, and Hakim Tagiyev (110 kg) took third place.
It should be noted that Azerbaijan is in 4th place in the team standings with 90 points, only 1 point behind Kazakhstan, which closes the first "3". The USA became the world champion with 154 points, while Iran took second place with 150 points.
