The European Championship among junior judokas has started in Sofia, the capital of Bulgaria.
As Idman.biz reports, on the first day of the competition, 9 judokas of the Azerbaijan national team took to the mat.
Two of our athletes have already qualified for the semi-finals. Another judoka of ours made it to the consolation round.
Boys
50 kg
Bahadir Feyzullayev won the first match against Michael Eldan (Israel), then Furkan Gul (Turkiye).
Mammadali Husiyev scored victories over Nelu Malik (Moldova) and Tomas Gedoni (Italy).
The Azerbaijani representatives will face in the semi-finals.
55 kg
Nihad Mamishov lost to Alex Milosevic (Serbia) in the first match.
60 kg
Nihad Rahimov first defeated Kjartan Gray (Iceland), then Thomas Palillo (Italy), but lost to Jakub Kurowski (Poland) in the 1/4 finals. He will continue his way in the consolation phase.
Girls
40 kg
Khadija Abdullayeva lost to Ema Vasilyeva (Bulgaria) in her first match.
44 kg
Leyla Alakbarova defeated Stella Papai (Hungary) and Yuvay Gabaya (Hungary) and made it to the quarter-finals.
Narmin Mammadli was defeated by Eva Ewing (Great Britain) after her victory over Xantia Stilianu (Cyprus).
48 kg
Diana Eldarova knocked out Noa Hadar (Israel) and Christina Christoforou (Cyprus). She lost to Charlotte Nettesheim (Germany).
Nurana Hajizade won against Petra Juljak (Bosnia and Herzegovina), but she failed against Elif Kilic (Turkiye) in the 1/8 finals.
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