Azerbaijan's U-23 wrestlers continue to compete at the World Championships.
Idman.Biz reports that Azerbaijani wrestler Elmir Aliyev became the world champion by defeating Russian Alibek Amirov (UWW) 3:2 in the final.
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Azerbaijan's U-23 wrestlers continue to compete at the World Championships.
Idman.Biz reports that our Greco-Roman and women wrestlers competing in the World Championships held their next matches today.
Greco-Roman wrestling
60 kg
Ilkin Qurbanov defeated Georgian Dimitri Khachidze (3:2) and German Georgios Skarpello (5:3) to advance to the 1/4 finals. In this stage, he lost to Iranian Sajjad Abbaspourragani with a score of 1:7.
72 kg
Ruslan Nurullayev defeated Ukrainian Oleg Khalilov 3:1 in the consolation match. Our wrestler will face Armenian Gaspar Terteryan for the bronze medal.
82 kg
Although Elmin Aliyev defeated Hungarian Dominik Csucora with a full advantage (9:0), he lost to Turkish Alperen Berber 3:5 in the 1/8 finals.
Women's wrestling
50 kg
Asmar Cankurtaran lost to Russian Natalia Pudova (UWW) 0:10 in the qualifying stage.
It should be noted that the semi-finals will start at 19:00 Baku time, and the medal matches will start at 20:00.