Azerbaijani wrestlers won 7 medals at the U23 World Championship held in Novi Sad, Serbia.

Offsideplus.az reports that in the last World Championship of the year, which lasted from October 20 to 27, our representatives achieved a historic success by winning 3 gold, 1 silver and 3 bronze medals. Thus, this result is our best result in terms of medals in the history of the U23 World Championships held since 2017.

In this competition, Azerbaijan took 4th place after Japan (6-1-3), Iran (5-2-5) and the USA (5-2-4).

Let us recall that in Novi Sad, Elmir Aliyev (55 kg), Ziya Babashov (63 kg) and Kenan Heybatov (70 kg) became world champions. Khetag Karsanov (125 kg) won a silver medal. Ruslan Nurullayev (72 kg), Gunay Gurbanova (59 kg) and Ali Tsokayev (86 kg) rose to the third step of the podium.