6 more wrestlers competed in the ranking tournament in Zagreb, the capital of Croatia.
Offsideplus.az reports that two of our representatives took to the mat in women's wrestling at 59 kg. Alyona Kolesnik won over Hungarian Erika Bognar (5:2) and American Mikaela Beck (tush) in group A, while Gunay Gurbanova won over American Sofia Macaluso (tush) and Moldovan Mariana Cherdivara (8:2) in group B. Both our wrestlers advanced to the semi-finals as group leaders. Kolesnik defeated Cherdivara 3:1, and Gurbanova beat Beki 6:0 and advanced to the finals. National members met in a decisive meeting. Gunay, who showed more determined wrestling in the finals, won a 4:2 victory.
Murad Mammadov (63 kg) lost to Aytjan Khalmakhanov from Uzbekistan with a score of 5:14 in the first round. Ziya Babashov, who is in the same weight class as him, advanced to the semi-finals after defeating Gleb Makaranka from Belarus with a score of 2:1, but was defeated by Russian Dinislam Bammatov - 0:8. Zia missed the initiative in the last seconds in the meeting with the American Ellis Coleman and lost the chance to get a bronze medal - 3:5.