Wrestling
\ncompetitions of the Rio Summer Olympics continue. The national team of
\nAzerbaijan has won the 5thmedal of the Rio Summer Olympics.This medals were won
\nby Greco-Roman wrestler of “Neftchi Sports Club\u201d, gold medalist of the World
\nCup (Las-Vegas), silver and gold medalist of the European Championships, winner
\nof the Baku 2015 European Games Rasul Chunayev (66 kg) for the country. The
\nathlete started competition from the 1\/16 final. He faced with the
\nrepresentative of Cuba Miguel Martinez Palacio for the first meeting. The
\nwrestler was unsuccessful at the beginning of the match at the beginning of the
\nmatch (0:2), but won in the end (4:2). At the next stage, Chunayev won his
\nRussian opponent, the Olympic Champion \u0130slambek Albiyev -3:2. In the quarter-final the wrestler faced with
\nAlgerian athlete Tarek Aziz Benaissa and won his opponent in the first half
\n(10:2). Unfortunately, in the semi-final Rasul Chunayev failed to continue with
\nthis success and lost to Armenian Migran Arutyunyan (1:4). Despite this, the
\nwrestler didn\u2019t lose the chance to win a medal. He won the representative of
\nSouth Korea, the world champion Hansu Ryu in the fight for bronze medal (8:0)
\nand claimed a bronze medal of the Rio Olympics.After the end of the
\nrace Rasul Chunayev expressed opinions to the media representatives: “I came to
\nRio for the gold medal, but unfortunately, I could not do it. I want to thank
\neveryone who supported me. I would like to make them happy, too. I can
\nunderstand the critics. I lost to Migran Arutyunyan. But most of all I wanted
\nto win. This time, failed. A longtime, I hadn\u2019t performed in the weight
\ncategory of 66 kg. I had to lower my weight to participate in the Olympic
\nGames. This factor played a major role in the defeat. Another factor was the
\ndraw results. I faced with the Olympic Champion in the 1\/8 final. The last
\nopponent Korean wrestler was the world champion. But if you want to win, you
\nhave to beat the strongest athletes. Only I made mistake in the semi-final.\u201dNote that, the first
\ndays of the wrestling tournaments representatives of the club Rovshan Bayramov
\n(59 kg) and Elvin Mursaliyev (75 kg) took
\nthe 5thand 7thplaces.Rasul Chunayev is the third medalist of “Neftchi Sports Club\u201d in the Rio
\nOlympics. Before that, the judokas Rustam Orujov (73kg) and Elmar Gasimov (100
\nkg) had won silver medals of the prestigious tournament.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Wrestling competitions of the Rio Summer Olympics continue. The national team of Azerbaijan has won the 5thmedal of the Rio Summer Olympics.This medals were won by Greco-Roman wrestler of “Neftchi Sports Club\u201d, gold medalist of the World Cup (Las-Vegas), silver and gold medalist of the European Championships, winner of the Baku 2015 European Games Rasul…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2369,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14512","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.neftchi.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14512","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.neftchi.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.neftchi.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.neftchi.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.neftchi.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14512"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.neftchi.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14512\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.neftchi.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2369"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.neftchi.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14512"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.neftchi.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14512"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.neftchi.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14512"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}