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Azerbaijan’s position in Olympic Games known

13 August 2012 [10:24] - TODAY.AZ

Azerbaijani athletes will return home with a clutch of 10 medals from the London Summer Olympic Games. The 53-strong Azerbaijani team competed in 16 sports to clinch two gold, two silver and six bronze medals.

Freestyle wrestlers Toghrul Asgarov (60kg) and Sharif Sharifov (84kg) claimed Olympic crowns, while Khetag Gazyumov (96) took bronze. In the Greco-Roman wrestling, Rovshan Bayramov (55kg) and Emin Ahmadov (74kg) won silver and bronze respectively.

Female wrestlers Mariya Stadnyk (48kg) clinched silver, and Yuliya Ratkevich (55kg) took bronze.

Boxers Teymur Mammadov (91kg) and Magomedrasul Medzhidov (+91kg) both won bronze medals, with Valentin Hristov (56kg) also claiming bronze in the weightlifting event.

Azerbaijan bettered their medal count by three against a record of seven medals won four years ago at the Beijing Olympics.

Thus, Azerbaijan finished the  London Summer Olympic Games in the 30th position.


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