From the 5th to 28th of May, the 7th “Zirve Children’s Games”, dedicated to the 96th anniversary of National Leader Heydar Aliyev, held in the AAAF Park Residential, Recreation and Entertainment Complexes located in Khirdalan and Astara, are proceeding. In the competitions, attended by more than 4000 athletes from 12 nations in 27 sport types, the winners in weightlifting are determined.
On the second day of the competition, attended by approximately 200 athletes from 7 nations-Azerbaijan, Iran, Georgia, Turkey, Israel, Moldova and Ukraine, the boys of 55 kg competed.
Turkish athlete Kerem Kurnaz managed to board the top of the honorary chair with 172 kg (76+96) result. Lerik athlete Elgun Murshudov was the runner-up with a total of 156 kg (71+85), however Lankaran athlete Emin Akberov took the third with 145 kg (64+81).
55 kg
| N | Name | Year | Country/City | Club | Weight | Snatch | Clean and Jerk | Total |
| 1. | Kurnaz Kerem | 2006 | Turkey | Zirve | 54.3 | 76 | 96 | 172 |
| 2. | Murshudov Elgun | 2006 | Lerik | Zirve | 54.5 | 71 | 85 | 156 |
| 3. | Akberov Emin | 2005 | Lankaran | Zirve | 52.9 | 64 | 81 | 145 |
| 4. | Mammadzadeh Muhammadli | 2008 | Gazakh | UGİM | 54.7 | 61 | 75 | 136 |
| 5. | Mammadzadeh Rufan | 2005 | Goranboy | Zirve | 55.0 | 60 | 75 | 135 |
| 6. | Ochigava Levan | 2006 | Georgia | Zirve | 51.8 | 54 | 70 | 124 |
| 7. | Aliyev Eshgin | 2005 | Ganja | Tahsil | 51.6 | 45 | 60 | 105 |
| 8. | Gasımov Sadig | 2005 | Jalilabad | UGİM | 52.2 | 46 | 56 | 102 |
| 9. | Gurbanov Yashar | 2007 | Baku | Spartak | 50.7 | 44 | 58 | 102 |
| 10. | Estehmami Mohammad | 2008 | İran | Zirve | 53.0 | 40 | 55 | 95 |
| 11. | Khub Salar | 2008 | İran | Zirve | 54.4 | 40 | 55 | 95 |
| 12. | Dadashov Kenan | 2005 | Lankaran | Zirve | 52.3 | 40 | 50 | 90 |
| 13. | Arıkhov Mahammad | 2006 | Gazakh | UGİM | 53.3 | 41 | 45 | 86 |
In this year’s competitions, athletes will compete in weightlifting, equestrian, shooting, basketball, boxing, judo, football and beach football, artistic and sporting gymnastics, wrestling (free-style, Greco-Roman), karate, carting, kickboxing, fencing, archery, powerlifting, chess, taekwondo, tennis and table-tennis, swimming, beach volleyball and volleyball, badminton and athletics.
The Games, organized by the “Zirve” International Sport Clubs, are becoming a great tradition. The object of the “Zirve Games” is the preservation of the heritage of genius leader, to bring his work to our future generations, at the same time, propagation and development of sport types, strengthen friendly relations between athletes and coaches, improvement of athletes’ skill levels, perfection of competition practices and evaluation of the work done by coaches.
