Wrestling
competitions of the Rio Summer Olympics continue. The national team of
Azerbaijan has won the 5thmedal of the Rio Summer Olympics.This medals were won
by Greco-Roman wrestler of “Neftchi Sports Club”, gold medalist of the World
Cup (Las-Vegas), silver and gold medalist of the European Championships, winner
of the Baku 2015 European Games Rasul Chunayev (66 kg) for the country. The
athlete started competition from the 1/16 final. He faced with the
representative of Cuba Miguel Martinez Palacio for the first meeting. The
wrestler was unsuccessful at the beginning of the match at the beginning of the
match (0:2), but won in the end (4:2). At the next stage, Chunayev won his
Russian opponent, the Olympic Champion İslambek Albiyev -3:2. In the quarter-final the wrestler faced with
Algerian athlete Tarek Aziz Benaissa and won his opponent in the first half
(10:2). Unfortunately, in the semi-final Rasul Chunayev failed to continue with
this success and lost to Armenian Migran Arutyunyan (1:4). Despite this, the
wrestler didn’t lose the chance to win a medal. He won the representative of
South Korea, the world champion Hansu Ryu in the fight for bronze medal (8:0)
and claimed a bronze medal of the Rio Olympics.After the end of the
race Rasul Chunayev expressed opinions to the media representatives: “I came to
Rio for the gold medal, but unfortunately, I could not do it. I want to thank
everyone who supported me. I would like to make them happy, too. I can
understand the critics. I lost to Migran Arutyunyan. But most of all I wanted
to win. This time, failed. A longtime, I hadn’t performed in the weight
category of 66 kg. I had to lower my weight to participate in the Olympic
Games. This factor played a major role in the defeat. Another factor was the
draw results. I faced with the Olympic Champion in the 1/8 final. The last
opponent Korean wrestler was the world champion. But if you want to win, you
have to beat the strongest athletes. Only I made mistake in the semi-final.”Note that, the first
days of the wrestling tournaments representatives of the club Rovshan Bayramov
(59 kg) and Elvin Mursaliyev (75 kg) took
the 5thand 7thplaces.Rasul Chunayev is the third medalist of “Neftchi Sports Club” in the Rio
Olympics. Before that, the judokas Rustam Orujov (73kg) and Elmar Gasimov (100
kg) had won silver medals of the prestigious tournament.