“Of course, we expected a lot of gold medals on the first day of the competition.”

This was stated by Haji Aliyev, the coordinator of freestyle wrestling of the Azerbaijan Wrestling Federation, in a statement to Offsideplus.az.

He assessed the performance of Azerbaijani athletes at the III CIS Games: “Unfortunately, yesterday we only won one gold medal. I hope that today the results will be better. It should be borne in mind that this is a competition for teenagers. Teenagers also make many mistakes. Thanks to these competitions, we can see mistakes more clearly. In the future, we will work to ensure that this does not happen again. For example, sometimes teenage athletes lift too much weight. However, lifting more than 3 kg is very harmful to both the future and health of the athlete. Overall, the result is normal. We just want to see a gold medal for both us and the fans. I hope that our wrestlers will please us today.”

It should be noted that Azerbaijani wrestlers won seven medals on the first day of the competition, one of which is gold.