2024 Beach Wrestling World Series was held in Timisoara, Romania.
As Idman.biz reports, Rashid Babazade (70 kg), Ramiz Hasanov (80 kg),The and Ibrahim Yusubov (90 kg) represented our country in the two-day competition under the leadership of head coach Oyan Nazariani.
Rashid Babazade won 1st place in group A by defeating Ukrainian Oleksii Boruta (1:1), Greek Vasileios Kesidis (3:0), and American Michael Brown (2:1). The Azerbaijani wrestler defeated Romanian Razvan Kovach (3:0) in the quarter-finals, and against Ukrainian Ivan Semyonov (3:0) in the semi-finals. In the final, Babazade lost to Turkish Yunus Coskun by a minimal margin (0:1) and won the silver medal, which was Rashid's first medal in this category.
In group A, Ramiz Hasanov defeated Moldavian Ion Marcu (2:0), French Hugo Cueno (+:-) and American Hunter Garvin (2:0). Hasanov, who advanced to the semi-finals as the group leader, lost to the USA representative Daniel Cardenas (1:2) in one step of the final, and in the match for the third place, Vasile Diacon (0:2) from Moldova was defeated.
Ibrahim Yusubov defeated Moldavian Trayan Kapatina (3:0), Ukrainian Nazar Dod (3:0), and Greek Christos Samartsidis (+:-) and took first place in Group A. The world champion did not give a chance to Ukrainian Oleksii Yakovchuk in the semi-finals - 3:0. As in the previous round, Yusubov again lost to Moldavian Trayan Kapatina (2:4) in the finals and was satisfied with the silver medal.
Our team took the second place with 52 points. They are only 2 points behind the champion Turkiye. The USA (45) ranked third.
The 4th round of the World Series will take place on September 21-22 in Katerini, Greece.
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