(MENAFN- AzerNews)
By Laman Ismayilova
Azerbaijan is getting ready to compete in 8 sports disciplines
at Islamic Solidarity Games today, Azernews reports.
The sports disciplines include skeet shooting, athletics,
taekwondo, wrestling, volleyball, handball, and football.
In total, the national team has already won 25 medals including
7 gold, 10 silver, and 8 bronze.
The gold medals were won by wrestlers Anna Skidan, Mariya
Stadnik, Haji Aliyev, Turan Bayramov, Leyla Gurbanova and taekwondo
fighter Farida Azizova.
Athlete Alexis Copello, gymnast Ivan Tikhonov and wrestlers
Abubakr Abakarov, Alyona Kolesnik, and Islam Bazarganov won silver
medals for Azerbaijan.
Taekwondo fighters Patimat Abakarova, Gasim Mahammadov, and
wrestlers Aliabbas Rzazade, Hajimurad Omarov, Tetiana Omelchenko,
and Asgar Mammadaliyev won bronze medals.
Thus, Azerbaijan ranks fifth among 56 participating countries.
Turkiye, Iran, Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, and Azerbaijan are in the
top five.
A total of 281 athletes are representing Azerbaijan at the 5th
Islamic Solidarity Games to run until August 18.
In March, the Organizing Committee announced the final program
of the 5th Islamic Solidarity Games, which consists of 22
disciplines from 19 sports including 4 para-sports.
The organizers choose to remove six sports: water polo, diving,
field hockey, tennis, wushu, and zurkhaneh. At their place, they
choose to add archery, boccia, fencing, and kickboxing.
At the paralympic events, para powerlifting and blind judo were
replaced by para table tennis and para archery.
Along these events, archery included four extra events with the
Traditional Turkish Archery discipline.
Notably, the 4th Islamic Solidarity Games took place in Baku in
2017. All 56 members of the Islamic Solidarity Sports Federation
are participating in the Games.
Four disciplines from 21 sports were contested in the previous
edition of the Islamic Solidarity Games.
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