The World Freestyle Wrestling Championship started today in Zagreb (Croatia). On the first day of the tournament, four athletes of the Azerbaijani national team took to the mat.
According to Idman.biz, Giorgi Meshvildishvili, competing in the 125 kg weight category, started from the second round and defeated Uzbek Hasanboy Rakhimov with a score of 7:0. In the 1/4 finals, he repeated the result by defeating Hungarian Vladislav Baitcaev. In the semi-finals, the Azerbaijani faced Polish Robert Baran.
Our wrestler won this match 2:0 and reached the final for the first time.
In the 70 kg weight category, Kanan Heybatov defeated Amirmohammad Babak Yazdani Cherati (Iran) - 15:4 and Shannon Heron Hanna (Bahamas) 10:0, but lost to Armenian Arman Andreasyan in the 1/4 finals despite the score advantage - 6:8.
After Arseni Cioyev (86 kg) defeated Etan Adrian Ramos (Puerto Rico) — 5:2, he lost to Japanese Hayato Ishiguro in the 1/4 finals — 8:13. Nureddin Novruzov, who started from the first round with a bye in the 61 kg weight category, lost to Ahmad Masud Mohammadnejadjavana (Iran) — 2:5.
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