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.