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Baku, Azerbaijan, June 16
By Ilkin Izzet - Trend:
Azerbaijani female athlete, Angela Dorogan reached the finals in the women's 53 kg freestyle wrestling at the Baku 2015 European Games.
In the semifinals, she defeated Moldova's Natalia Budu with a score of 7:2.
In the finals, she will face Polish female wrestler Roksana Zasina.
Another Azerbaijani wrestler, Irina Netreba, who competes in the women's 58 kg freestyle wrestling at the Games, lost in the semifinals to the Hungarian wrestler, Emese Barka with a score of 2:5 and will be competing for bronze medal with Norwegian athlete Grace Bullen.
Azerbaijan already has two medals in the women's wrestling events. Earlier, Mariya Stadnyk (48 kg) grabbed a gold medal, while Natalya Sinishin (55 kg) finished with a bronze medal.
In the men's Greco-Roman wrestling, the Azerbaijani wrestlers won two medal sets: Rasul Chunayev (71 kg) and Elvin Mursaliyev (75 kg) won gold medals, Rafig Huseynov (80 kg) and Sabahi Shariati (130 kg) won silver medals, while Elman Mukhtarov (59 kg) and Hasan Aliyev (66 kg) won bronze medals.
The European Games that kicked off in Baku June 12, will last till June 28.
There is a total of 20 sports at Baku 2015: 16 Olympic sports and four non-Olympic sports.
More than 6,000 athletes from across Europe will be representing their nations over 17 days of competition.
Baku was awarded the games by the European Olympic Committees (EOC) in December 2012.