BAKU, Azerbaijan, August 10. Today, the last two athletes from Azerbaijan will compete at the Summer Olympics in Paris, Trend reports.
Freestyle wrestlers Haji Aliyev (65 kilograms) and Magomedkhan Magomedov (97 kilograms) will take to the mat.
Three-time world champion and four-time European champion Gadzhi Aliyev will face Mexican Austin Gomez in his first match. Magomedkhan Magomedov will fight Luis Miguel Perez from the Dominican Republic. Both matches will be held in the 1/8 finals.
Another freestyle wrestler, Giorgi Meshvildishvili (125 kilograms), will compete for the bronze medal.
Today, the Azerbaijani national rhythmic gymnastics team will also perform in the final round. The team will try to be among the winners in the group exercises in the program of five hoops, three ribbons and two balls.
At the moment, Azerbaijan has 5 medals. Judokas Hidayat Heydarov (73 kilograms) and Zelim Kotsoyev (100 kilograms) became Olympic champions, taekwondo wrestler Gashim Magomedov (58 kilograms) and boxer Alfonso Dominguez (92 kilograms) won silver medals, and Greco-Roman wrestler Hasrat Jafarov (67 kilograms) won a bronze medal.