Murad Hasanli seized the gold in the lowest bodyweight category

From the 5^th to 28^th of May, the 7^th “Zirve Children’s Games”, dedicated to the 96^th anniversary of National Leader Heydar Aliyev, held in the AAAF Park Residential, Recreation and Entertainment Complexes located in Khirdalan and Astara, kick off with weightlifting competitions. More than 4000 athletes from 12 nations test their powers in 27 sport types.

In the tournament, attended by approximately 200 athletes from 7 nations-Azerbaijan, Iran, Georgia, Turkey, Israel, Moldova and Ukraine, the boys under 26kg  have boarded the platform.

Yevlakh athlete Murad Hasanli stole gold from Janpolad Rafiyev both performing the same result, 66 kg, but Hasanli was first to finish the attempt. Lankaran athlete Ilham Akberov gained the bronze with a 47 kg (20+27) total.

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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.