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Azerbaijani judoka Hidayat Heydarov has been crowned a two-time
European champion.
The judo fighter won gold medal at the European Championships
held in Montpellier, France, Azernews reports.
He secured the title thanks to a victory over Spanish Salvador
Cases Roca in the 73kg final.
Another national judoka Zelym Kotsoiev captured a gold medal at
the European Championships Seniors Montpellier. He beat a Georgian
rival in the 100 kg final.
The championships brought together 389 fighters from 46
countries.
The European Championships Individuals 2023 will be held as part
of the IJF World Tour and during the 2024 Summer Olympics
qualification period.
The Azerbaijani team consisted of 11 judo fighters, including
nine male and two female judokas.
Note that Hidayat Heydarov is a gold medalist at the 2017
European Judo Championships. At the 2019 European Games, he took a
bronze medal, defeating Ferdinand Karapetyan.
Heydarov claimed a bronze medal at he 2019 pre-Olympic World
Championships.
The judoka also won the gold medal in his event at the 2022 Judo
Grand Slam Tel Aviv held in Tel Aviv, Israel.
Zelym Kotsoiev is a three-time bronze medalist at the European
Judo Championships. He captured a gold medal at the 2017 Summer
Universiade held in Taipei, Taiwan.
In 2021, he won the silver medal in his event at the Judo World
Masters held in Doha, Qatar. A few months later, he won the gold
medal in his event at the 2021 Judo Grand Slam Antalya held in
Antalya, Turkiye.
Zelym Kotsoiev also won one of the bronze medals at 2022 Judo
Grand Slam Tel Aviv held in Tel Aviv, Israel.
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