{"id":38331,"date":"2026-10-28T11:01:12","date_gmt":"2026-10-28T07:01:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.neftchi.org\/?p=38331"},"modified":"2026-10-28T11:01:35","modified_gmt":"2026-10-28T07:01:35","slug":"neftchi-wrestler-nihat-mammadli-wins-silver-at-world-championships","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.neftchi.org\/en\/neftchi-wrestler-nihat-mammadli-wins-silver-at-world-championships\/","title":{"rendered":"Neftchi wrestler Nihat Mammadli wins silver at World Championships"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Nihat Mammadli, a Greco-Roman wrestler representing Neftchi Sports Club, has won a silver medal at the World Championships held in Astana, the capital of Kazakhstan.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Competing in the 63 kg weight category, Mammadli delivered a strong performance throughout the tournament. He defeated Norway\u2019s Morten Thoresen 11\u20130 in the round of 16 and Qatar\u2019s Aref Mohammadi 10\u20131 in the quarterfinals to advance to the semifinals. In a closely contested bout, he eliminated Russian Olympic medalist, world champion and three-time European champion Sergey Yemelin on criteria after a 2\u20132 draw, securing his place in the final. However, Mammadli lost to Armenia\u2019s Karen Aslanyan in the gold-medal bout to finish second.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Earlier in the tournament, two other Greco-Roman wrestlers representing Neftchi Sports Club, Eldaniz Azizli (55 kg) and Sanan Suleymanov (77 kg), also claimed gold medals at the championships in Astana.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nihat Mammadli, a Greco-Roman wrestler representing Neftchi Sports Club, has won a silver medal at the World Championships held in Astana, the capital of Kazakhstan. Competing in the 63 kg weight category, Mammadli delivered a strong performance throughout the tournament. He defeated Norway\u2019s Morten Thoresen 11\u20130 in the round of 16 and Qatar\u2019s Aref Mohammadi&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":38332,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[70],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-38331","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-wrestler"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.neftchi.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38331","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=38331"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.neftchi.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38331\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38334,"href":"https:\/\/www.neftchi.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38331\/revisions\/38334"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.neftchi.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/38332"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.neftchi.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38331"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.neftchi.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38331"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.neftchi.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38331"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}