BAKU, Azerbaijan, September 29. Two more Azerbaijani taekwondo athletes won gold medals at the 3rd CIS Games, Trend reports.
In the finals of the competition, held at the Kur Olympic Training and Sports Center in Mingachevir, Azerbaijani taekwondo athletes Humay Dadashova (46 kg) and Maryam Mammadova (53 kg) climbed to the top step of the podium. They defeated Uzbekistan's Valeria Khegay and Russia's Aziza Huseynova with a score of 2:1, respectively.
Umid Ragimzade (54 kg) and Eljan Aliyev (74 kg), who lost in the final, took second place. Tamerlan Yagubov (54 kg), Allahverdi Mammadov and Zeynal Aliyev (both 87 kg), Salima Guliyeva (46 kg), Nilufar Borji (53 kg), and Nargiz Kazimova (62 kg), who stopped fighting in the semifinals.
Thus, on the first day of the competition, Azerbaijani taekwondo athletes won 3 gold, 2 silver, and 6 bronze medals. Earlier, Ziya Hasanli (63 kg) won a gold medal.
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BAKU, Azerbaijan, September 29. Azerbaijan won its first gold medal in the sambo final at the 3rd Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS) Games, which are being held in this country for the first time, Trend reports.
The finals, held at the Goygol Olympic Sports Complex, saw Azerbaijani athlete Abdullatif Musayev (53 kilograms) face off against Uzbekistan’s Gamzat Maksetbayev. Musayev emerged victorious, securing Azerbaijan’s inaugural gold medal at the Games.
Meanwhile, four more Azerbaijani sambo athletes will compete in finals later today.
The 3rd CIS Games feature participants from 13 countries, with a total of 1,624 athletes competing, and the event is scheduled to conclude on October 8.
