Budapest-2024: Nurullayev wins bronze, Jafarov and Abbasov injured, Mammadov keeps medal chances

The wrestling ranking tournament continues in Budapest, the capital of Hungary.

Idman.biz reports that the Greco-Roman wrestlers have started performing in the last ranking competition of the year.

3 athletes of our team competed for the medal. Another wrestler, Hasrat Jafarov (72 kg), did not participate in the bronze medal match due to injury.

Ranking tournament
Greco-Roman wrestling
72 kg
Although Ruslan Nurullayev defeated Daniyar Kalenova from Kazakhstan with a score of 5:1, he lost to Yuri Lomadze from Georgia (0:10) in the 1/4 finals. After defeating Norwegian Juan Aaka 6:4 in the consolation match, he wrestled Giorgi Chkhikvadze (Georgia) for the bronze medal. Our athlete won with a score of 9:0.

Our other representative in this weight, Hasrat Jafarov, defeated Serbian world champion Ali Arsalan (2:1) and Kazakh Merey Maulitkanova (5:3) to advance to the semi-finals. Hasrat, who lost to Uzbek Abdulla Aliyev with a score of 3:5, did not participate in the bronze medal match due to injury.

87 kg
Islam Abbasov, who defeated Hungarian Istvan Takacs 3:1, advanced to the next stage in the 1/8 finals because Dutch Marcel Sterkenburg was injured. Abbasov, who defeated Norwegian Eksos Mukubuya based on the first point principle (1:1), lost to Hungarian David Losonczi in the semi-finals - 0:4. Islam's opponent for the bronze medal will be Serbian Aleksandar Komarov.

130 kg
Although Beka Kandelaki defeated Korean Seungchan Lee with a full advantage (9:0), he lost to Hungarian Dariusz Vittek in the 1/4 finals based on the last point principle (3:3). Beka did not participate in the consolation match with Hungarian Koppani Laslo due to injury.

Sarkhan Mammadov, who is in the same weight category with him, defeated US wrestlers Aden Attao (9:0) and Kurtni Friman (4:3) and advanced to the semi-finals. Sarkhan Mammadov, who lost to Hungarian Dariusz Vittek one step away from the final, will compete for the 3rd place. He will face local athlete Koppani Laslo.

It should be noted that our freestyle wrestlers won 5 medals in the first two days of the competition.

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