Today, the U-17 World Wrestling Championship kicks off in Baku.
elchi reports that on the first day of the world championship, which will continue until August 2, qualification and 1/8 final matches in Greco-Roman wrestling will be held.
The Azerbaijani national team will join the competition on the first day with 5 athletes.
Qualification round
55 kg
Gurban Majnunov – Alikhan Minazarov (Kyrgyzstan)
65 kg
Orkhan Habibli – Gaspar Sanchez (Czech Republic)
80 kg
Isfahan Hasanov – Toma Yelenc (Croatia)
110 kg
Emin Bakhshaliyev – Andrey Simic (Serbia)
1/8 final
48 kg
Omar Salmanov – Avinash Chetake (India)
It should be noted that the U-17 World Championship, which will be held at the National Gymnastics Arena, will bring together nearly 700 wrestlers from more than 60 countries. Azerbaijan will be represented by 29 athletes in the world championship.