The Grand-Prix
tournament has ended in Samsun, the city if Turkey. 398 athletes (237 men, 161
women) have competed for the title of winner in the competition.Azerbaijan national
team has been represented by 11 sportsmen in the tournament and has taken 2
medals.Both medals belong to
the graduates of “Neftchi” Sports Club. Competing in the 90 kg weight category
Mammadali Mehdiyev has won over the Georgian Ushangi Margiani, the Indian
athlete Avtar Singh and the PolishPatrick Ciechomski and has reached to
the semifinal. At this stage, Mehdiyev has won the Brazilian Tiago Camilo has
taken the license to the final. In the decisive match, our athlete has lost to the
representative of Russia Husen Halmurzayev and has been awarded a silver medal
of the Samsun Grand-Prix.The club’s other
representative, competing in the 60 kg weight category Ilgar Mushkiyev has won the
Belgian Senne Wyns, the Chinese Jianqi An and the Belarusian athlete Arif
Baghirov on the way to the semi-final.
But in the semifinal Mushkiyev has lost to the local judoka Bakir Ozlu. In the
match for third place, he has won the Bulgarian Yanislav Gerchev and has won a
bronze medal.