{"id":36521,"date":"2026-08-15T12:23:09","date_gmt":"2026-08-15T08:23:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.neftchi.org\/?p=36521"},"modified":"2026-09-01T12:23:48","modified_gmt":"2026-09-01T08:23:48","slug":"ilham-zakiyev-becomes-european-champion-for-the-tenth-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.neftchi.org\/en\/ilham-zakiyev-becomes-european-champion-for-the-tenth-time\/","title":{"rendered":"Ilham Zakiyev Becomes European Champion for the Tenth Time"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Neft\u00e7i Sports Club representative Ilham Zakiyev (J1, +95 kg) delivered a confident performance at the European Para Judo Championships in Heidelberg, Germany, winning the gold medal.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In the semifinal, Zakiyev faced Great Britain\u2019s Daniel English and secured an ippon victory to advance to the final. In the decisive bout, he also defeated Spain\u2019s Garros Suarez by ippon to claim the European title.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">With this victory, Ilham Zakiyev has become European champion for the tenth time in his career.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The club\u2019s other para judokas \u2014 Saleh Sultanov (J1, 81 kg), Khatira Ismiyeva (J1, +70 kg), and Dursadaf Karimova (J2, +70 kg) \u2014 also won bronze medals at the tournament.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Neft\u00e7i Sports Club representative Ilham Zakiyev (J1, +95 kg) delivered a confident performance at the European Para Judo Championships in Heidelberg, Germany, winning the gold medal. In the semifinal, Zakiyev faced Great Britain\u2019s Daniel English and secured an ippon victory to advance to the final. In the decisive bout, he also defeated Spain\u2019s Garros Suarez&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":36522,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-36521","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-judo"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.neftchi.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36521","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=36521"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.neftchi.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36521\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36524,"href":"https:\/\/www.neftchi.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36521\/revisions\/36524"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.neftchi.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/36522"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.neftchi.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36521"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.neftchi.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36521"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.neftchi.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36521"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}