On July 22-29, European Weightlifting Championship, among young boys and girls U15-17, has started in Milan, Italy. The tournament, which will be attended by 388 athletes from about 40 countries (169 girls and 219 boys), has the license character to the III Youth Olympic Games, to be held in Buenos-Aires, Argentine.
Members of the Azerbaijan National Weightlifting Team also participate in the tournament. Today, one more member of national team got on the platform. In 50kg weight category, Omar Javadov tested his power among U-17 boys.
Our athlete successfully performed all three approaches in snatch and showed 88kg result. Thus, he surpassed all his opponents and won the gold medal in this movement.
Omar continued the same success and was silver medalist with a total of 102kg result in clean and jerk.
Omar Javadov won the title of European champion with a total of 190kg (88+102) result.
We would like to thank our athlete and everyone who contributed to his victory, and congratulate weightlifting fans and all Azerbaijan people on this wonderful achievement!
