{"id":34328,"date":"2026-05-12T16:14:42","date_gmt":"2026-05-12T12:14:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.neftchi.org\/?p=34328"},"modified":"2026-05-13T16:15:15","modified_gmt":"2026-05-13T12:15:15","slug":"azerbaijani-para-taekwondo-athlete-sabir-zeynalov-claims-european-silver","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.neftchi.org\/en\/azerbaijani-para-taekwondo-athlete-sabir-zeynalov-claims-european-silver\/","title":{"rendered":"Azerbaijani Para-taekwondo Athlete Sabir Zeynalov Claims European Silver"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Sabir Zeynalov, a representative of the &#8220;Neftchi&#8221; Sports Club, secured a podium finish at the European Para-taekwondo Championships held in Munich, Germany.<br>Competing in the K44 category (58 kg weight class), our Paralympian advanced to the semifinals after defeating Poland&#8217;s Kasjan Mikolajczak in the quarterfinals. In the semifinal round, Zeynalov secured a place in the final by walkover, as his opponent, Ali Can Ozcan of Turkey, was unable to compete due to injury.<br>In the final match, Sabir Zeynalov faced the Israeli Paralympic champion, Asaf Yasur. Despite a strong performance, he was defeated in the final round, earning the silver medal\u2014the first European Championship medal of his career.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sabir Zeynalov, a representative of the &#8220;Neftchi&#8221; Sports Club, secured a podium finish at the European Para-taekwondo Championships held in Munich, Germany.Competing in the K44 category (58 kg weight class), our Paralympian advanced to the semifinals after defeating Poland&#8217;s Kasjan Mikolajczak in the quarterfinals. In the semifinal round, Zeynalov secured a place in the final&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":34329,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[93],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-34328","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-para-taekwondo"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.neftchi.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34328","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\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.neftchi.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34328"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.neftchi.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34328\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34331,"href":"https:\/\/www.neftchi.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34328\/revisions\/34331"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.neftchi.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/34329"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.neftchi.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34328"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.neftchi.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34328"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.neftchi.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34328"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}