Vugar Talibov reaches EYOF Baku 2019 finals

Vugar Talibov reaches EYOF Baku 2019 finals

Azerbaijani judoka Vugar Talibov (73 kg) has reached the finals as part of the XV Summer European Youth Olympic Festival in Baku 2019.

Talibov scored a landslide victory in the semifinals over Turkish athlete Musa Simsek. In the fight for golden medal, Talibov will face winner of a pair of Luigi Centracchio (Italy) - Rodrigo Pires (Portugal).

Azerbaijan’s Aytaj Gardashkhanli (57kg) lost to Russia’s Xenia Galitskaya in the semifinals.

The XV Summer European Youth Olympic Festival is being held in Baku on July 21-27. The festival will be attended by more than 3,900 athletes from 48 European countries. Athletes will compete in ten kinds of sports - gymnastics, athletics, basketball, cycling, handball, judo, swimming, tennis, volleyball and wrestling. In total, athletes will compete for 135 sets of medals.

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