The Azerbaijan national team won the 5th medal at the Paris 2024 Summer Olympic Games.
Idman.biz reports that Loren Alfonso Dominguez signed this success.
Our boxer, in the men’s 92 kg weight class of boxing at the Olympic Games Paris 2024, defeated all his opponents until the final. In the gold match, the athlete faced Uzbekistan’s Lazizbek Mullojonov and lost. This is the second silver of Azerbaijan, the country that has 2 gold and 1 bronze.
Alfonso's medal went down in the history of the Olympics as the 54th award received by Azerbaijani athletes. The team, which made their debut in Atlanta 1996, reached this number in their 8th Games. With 9 gold and 29 bronze medals, Azerbaijani national team got the 16th silver.
10 of these awards belong to the boxing fighters: 2 silver and 8 bronze. In addition to Alfonso, who won bronze at 81 kg in Tokyo 2020 and silver at 92 kg in Paris 2024, 8 of the boxers have distinguished themselves. Lorenzo Sotomayor (64 kg) won the silver prize of Rio 2016. Vugar Alakbarov (75 kg) in Sydney 2000, Fuad Aslanov (51 kg) and Aghasi Mammadov (54 kg) Athens 2004, Sahin Imranov (57 kg) in Beijing 2008, Teymur Mammadov (91 kg) and Mahammadrasul Majidov in (+91 kg) ) London 2012, Kamran Shahsuvarli (75 kg) won the bronze medal in the Rio 2016 Games.
So far in Paris 2024, judokas Hidayat Heydarov (73 kg) and Zelym Kotsoiev (100 kg) won gold medals, taekwondo player Gashim Magomedov (58 kg) scooped up silver medal, Greco-Roman wrestler Hasrat Jafarov (67 kg) won bronze medal.
Vugar Kheyrullayev
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