The European Olympic Qualifying Tournament for wrestling held in Baku continues.
Idman.biz reports that today free wrestlers will fight on the mat.
5 athletes of the Azerbaijan national team will join the fight for qualification to the Paris-2024 Summer Olympic Games. The team will not be represented only in the 97 kg weight class for which it won a license in advance.
Freestyle wrestling
April 7
57 kg
Aliabbas Rzazade faced Simone Piroddu (Italy) in the first match and won convincingly - 11:0.
65 kg
Haji Aliyev started the competition with a victory over Khamzat Arsamerzouev (France). He defeated his opponent with a score of 5:2. Aliyev will wrestle with Niurgun Skriabin (AIN) in the quarter-finals.
74 kg
Turan Bayramov will face Tobias Portmann (Switzerland).
86 kg
Osman Nurmagomedov started the fight with Domantas Pauliuscenko (Lithuania). Azerbaijan's wrestler, who defeated his opponent with a score of 11:0, advanced to the 1/8 finals. He will face Switzerland's Samuel Scherrer at this stage.
125 kg
Giorgi Meshvildishvili is free from the first round. His opponent will be known in the earlier stages.
It should be noted that the Azerbaijani national team failed to win a license in the first 2 days of the competition. In total, three wrestlers of Azerbaijan got the right to participate in Paris-2024. Magomedkhan Magomedov (97 kg) won an Olympic license in freestyle, Hasrat Jafarov (67 kg) and Sanan Suleymanov (77 kg) in Greco-Roman wrestling.
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