Azerbaijan's Alfonso Dominguez To Competes For Olympic Gold Today
(MENAFN- Trend News Agency)
PARIS, France, August 9. Azerbaijani boxer
Alfonso Dominguez will compete for the Gold medal today at the
Paris 2024 Summer Olympics, Trend reports.
Dominguez, who fights in the 92 kg weight category, will face
Uzbekistan's Lazizbek Mullojonov in the final match.
Today's Olympic action also includes the Azerbaijani rhythmic
gymnastics team and two freestyle wrestlers. The gymnastics team
will participate in the qualifying round, performing hoop, ball,
and ribbon exercises.
In freestyle wrestling, Turan Bayramov (74 kg) will go up
against Albania's Chermen Valiev, while Giorgi Meshvildishvili (125
kg) will face Egypt's Diaeldin Abdulmuttalib. Both wrestlers will
compete in the 1/8 finals.
Azerbaijan has already secured five medals at the Paris
Olympics. Judokas Hidayat Heydarov (73 kg) and Zelim Kotsoyev (100
kg) have both claimed Olympic gold, taekwondo athlete Gashim
Magomedov won silver, and Greco-Roman wrestler Hasrat Jafarov (67
kg) took bronze. With his final match ahead, Alfonso Dominguez is
guaranteed at least a silver medal.
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