The delegation of Azerbaijan, which participated in the “Paris-2024” Summer Olympic Games, returned home.
Publika.az reports that among them were Minister of Youth and Sports Farid Gayibov, Deputy Minister Mariana Vasileva, Vice President of the National Olympic Committee Chingiz Huseynzade and General Secretary Azer Aliyev, other officials, as well as athletes who won silver and bronze medals of the Olympics.
The delegation was welcomed at the Heydar Aliyev International Airport by representatives of the Ministry of Youth and Sports, members of the media, fans and athletes’ relatives.
It should be noted that Azerbaijan, represented by 48 athletes in 15 sports, won 7 medals at the “Paris-2024” Summer Olympic Games. As part of the Azerbaijan team, judokas Hidayat Heydarov (73 kilograms) and Zelim Kotsoyev (100 kilograms) became Olympic champions, taekwondo player Gashim Magomedov (58 kilograms) and boxer Alfonso Dominguez (92 kilograms) won silver, Greco-Roman wrestler Hasrat Jafarov (67 kilograms), free wrestlers Magomedkhan Magomedov (97 kilograms) and Giorgi Meshvildishvili (125 kilograms) won bronze medals. Our country shared the 30th-31st places with Croatia in the medal ranking.
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