The Azerbaijan
Sambo Championhip was finished held in the Shagan Olympic Sports Complex. The
tournament was dedicated to the memory of coach of USSR and Azerbaijan Abulfaz
Aliyev and was organized among teenagers, youths and men.The
sambo-fighters of “Neftchi Sports Club” totally won 40 medals of the tournament
(9 gold, 9 silver, 22 bronze) and take the first place in the team score.Eyvaz Bakhshiyev
(52 kg), Bahadur Asgarov (65 kg), Aydin Alakbarov (70 kg) and Ali Nazarli (75
kg) mounted the highest step of the podium among the teenagers. Among the young
athletes Yusif Nabiyev (62 kg) and Elton Guliyev (68 kg) and among the men
Aghasif Samadov (52 kg), Yusif Nabiyev (62 kg) and Emin Hasanov (68 kg)
repeated the same success.