Hidayat Heydarov (73 kg) will participate in the Paris-2024 Summer Olympic Games as the absolute leader not only of his weight, but of the world ranking.
As Idman.biz reports, the current world and European champion is on the first place in the ranking list for all weight classes.
The Azerbaijani judoka is ahead of all tatami masters in the number of rating points he has collected. Hidayat currently has 8798 points.
The victory at the world championship held in Abu Dhabi allowed him to surpass Matthias Casse (81 kg). The Belgian is second - 7932 points.
The top-3 is closed by another Azerbaijani judoka. World champion Zelym Kotsoiev (100 kg) scored 7022 points.
Heydarov is second in the world if the indicators between men and women are taken into account. Only the multiple world champion Christa Deguchi has scored more points. The Canadian has 9690 rating points.
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