BAKU, Azerbaijan, June 19. The World Judo
Championships are ongoing in Budapest, Hungary, Trend reports.
On the sixth day of the tournament, Olympic champion and member
of the Azerbaijani national team Zelim Kotsoyev took to the tatami
in the men's 100 kg weight category.
Kotsoyev entered the competition in the second round and
confidently advanced to the quarterfinals, defeating Italy’s
Gennaro Pirelli in the Round of 32 and Kazakhstan’s Marat
Baykamurov in the Round of 16. In the quarterfinals, he faced Arman
Adamyan, representing the International Judo Federation (IJF), and
after a loss, moved to the repechage bracket.
In the repechage, Kotsoyev overcame Spain’s Nikolaos
Sherazadishvili and went on to claim a convincing victory over
South Korea’s Sok-Yeon Kim in the bronze medal match, securing
third place in the world championships.
With Kotsoyev’s success, Azerbaijan now holds three medals at
the tournament. Earlier, Zelim Tskayev (81 kg) and Eljan Gadzhiyev
(90 kg) also captured bronze medals in their respective weight
categories.
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