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Azerbaijani fighters to take part in all round fighting competitions in Ukraine

15 April 2011 [14:26] - TODAY.AZ
World Championship in all round fighting will take place April 15-17 in Kharkov, Ukraine. The competitions will bring together 400 participants from Azerbaijan, Belarus, Vietnam, Georgia, Iran, Kazakhstan, Moldova, Poland, Russia, Romania, United States, Turkey and Ukraine.

The opening ceremony will be held April 16. Azerbaijan is represented by 14 fighters. The following disciplines are included: Hand-to-hand knife Fighting, Hand-to-hand combat without knife, fire-arms or pneumatic gun shooting.

All round fighting as a kind of sports was founded by the officers of the Ukrainian Armed Forces in Kharkov in 1997.


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