By Ingilab Mammadov

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BAKU, Azerbaijan, September 29. Two more
Azerbaijani taekwondo athletes won gold medals at the 3rd CIS
Games, Trend

In the finals of the competition, held at the Kur Olympic
Training and Sports Center in Mingachevir, Azerbaijani taekwondo
athletes Humay Dadashova (46 kg) and Maryam Mammadova (53 kg)
climbed to the top step of the podium. They defeated Uzbekistan’s
Valeria Khegay and Russia’s Aziza Huseynova with a score of 2:1,
respectively.

Umid Ragimzade (54 kg) and Eljan Aliyev (74 kg), who lost in the
final, took second place. Tamerlan Yagubov (54 kg), Allahverdi
Mammadov and Zeynal Aliyev (both 87 kg), Salima Guliyeva (46 kg),
Nilufar Borji (53 kg), and Nargiz Kazimova (62 kg), who stopped
fighting in the semifinals.

Thus, on the first day of the competition, Azerbaijani taekwondo
athletes won 3 gold, 2 silver, and 6 bronze medals. Earlier, Ziya
Hasanli (63 kg) won a gold medal.

BAKU, Azerbaijan, September 29.​ Azerbaijan won
its first gold medal in the sambo final at the 3rd Commonwealth of
Independent States (CIS) Games, which are being held in this
country for the first time, Trend reports.

The finals, held at the Goygol Olympic Sports Complex, saw
Azerbaijani athlete Abdullatif Musayev (53 kilograms) face off
against Uzbekistan’s Gamzat Maksetbayev. Musayev emerged
victorious, securing Azerbaijan’s inaugural gold medal at the

Meanwhile, four more Azerbaijani sambo athletes will compete in
finals later today.

The 3rd CIS Games feature participants from 13 countries, with a
total of 1,624 athletes competing, and the event is scheduled to
conclude on October 8.