The European Open Judo Championship among men was held in Rome, Italy. 257 athletes from 36 countries participated in the tournament.The national team was represented by 16 judokas in the tournament. Our team won 1 silver and 1 bronze medal.The judoka of “Neftchi Sports Club” Tural Safguliyev (90 kq) won a silver medal for our country. Our athlete won the Serbian athlete Dragan Begovic, the Italian athlete Luca Galbiati and the Japanese athlete Shoichiro Mukai and qualified for the final. At this stage, Safguliyev won over the Canadian judoka Zachari Burt and reached to the final. But, our judoka lost to the Polish athlete Piotr Kuczera in the final and won a silver medal of the championship.