The European wrestling held in Riga, the capital of Latvia continues. The
freestyle wrestler of «Neftchi” Sports Club Haji Aliyev (61 kg) has competed on
the third day of the competition. The double world champion has joined the
fight from the 1/8 final match. First of all, our athlete has won easily over
the Lithuanian Sharinas Yurkis (11:0); in the quarter final has defeated the
representative of Bulgaria Vladimir Dubov by the same score. In the semifinal
Aliyev has come face to face with the Georgian Khinchegashvili. Unfortunately,
our athlete could not continue his series of victory this time. Our wrestler
has encountered with the Armenian Valod Franqulyan in the fight for bronze
medal and he has defeated his opponent with a score of 7:0 and has been awarded
the bronze medal of the European Championship.