2016 Rio Summer Olympicsare underway.The national team of Azerbaijan owned 2 medals of Rio Olympics.Fortunately, the medal was won by Elmar Gasimov, who is judoka of “Neftchi Sports Club”. The athlete (100 kg) won Russian representative, Russian representative, European, world and Olympic champion Tagir Khaibulaev in the 1/16 final. He faced with Algerian Lyes Bouyacoub and defeated him in the 1/8 final. At the next stage destroyed Egyptian Ramadan Darwish by ippon (54 sec). And Elmar Gasimov progressed to the semifinal of the Olympic Games in Rio. At this stage, Gasimov’s opponent was Ukrainian Artem Bloshenko. He also won his opponent by ippon and qualified for the final. In the decisive match, our athlete faced with Czech Lukas Krpalek and was defeated by ippon toward the end of the meeting. And Gasimov claimed a silver medal of the Summer Olympic Games in Rio.After the final match the athlete said: We were tired when we came here. We had a little rest. I came fully prepared for the match. In the first meetings my physical and technical preparation seemed to be in order. Just the semifinal match was very difficult. The Ukrainian athlete jumped on me with all his strength. I defeated him but I had to spend a lot of power. Leg muscles began to hurt. And it also impact on the final match. I was very tired in the decisive match. Krpalek was better physically than me. We had faced him 4-5 times. Most of the meetings, I had come to win. This defeat is not a tragedy. First of all, I owe to my father according to the results in sport. He has been very supportive to me”.Note that, Elmar Gasimov became the winner of the 2009 European Judo Championship in Armenia. The athlete also won a silver medal of the 2014 European Championship in France and the same year won a gold medal of the “Grand Slam” tournament in Russia. The judoka became the champion of Grand-Prix tournaments (Samsun and Tbilisi) and competitions organized for the master sportsmen (Morocco and Mexico) last year. He also became the winner of different tournaments and qualified for the Rio Olympics.As a reminder, judoka of “Neftchi Sports Club” Rustam Orujov (73 kg) also owned a silver medal of the Rio Olympics on August 8.medalına sahib olmuşdu.