Azerbaijan's Heydarov Wins Olympic Gold Triumphing Over French Joan-Benjamin Gaba
Date
7/29/2024 3:14:20 PM
(MENAFN- AzerNews)
Azerbaijani judoka Hidayat Heydarov has become the winner of the
Paris 2024 Summer Olympic Games securing the first Gold medal for
Azerbaijan, Azernews reports, citing Idman .
In the final, he emerged victorious over French judoka
Joan-Benjamin Gaba, cementing his legacy as the greatest judo
fighter after his title win in the men's 73 kg division.
Hidayat Heydarov went down in the history of Azerbaijani sports
as a judoka, who won the title of European, World, and Olympic
champion this year.
The World Judo Champion (-73 kg) stood out on the third day of
the Olympics. He exploded Paris after 174 years since Mirza Fatali
Akhundov's Mastali Shah in 1850 .
Hidayat also repeated the joint record of Elnur Mammadli and
Rustam Orujov, who won the earliest Olympic medals from Azerbaijan.
All three judokas reached the finals in the 73 kg category.
Mammadli became the champion in Beijing 2008, Heydarov in Paris
2024, while Orujov settled for silver in Rio 2016.
Hidayat started fighting from the round of 16 and scooped up the
gold medal. Joan-Benjamin Gaba of France took the silver, while
Adil Osmanov of Moldova and Soichi Hashimoto of Japan earlier won
bronze medals.
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