Aliabbas Rzazade Explained

Aliabbas Rzazade
Native Name:Əliabbas Rzazadə
Birth Date:21 May 1998
Birth Place:Astara, Azerbaijan
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Height:165 cm
Sport:Amateur wrestling
Weight Class:57 kg
Event:Freestyle
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Aliabbas Rzazade (born 21 May 1998) is an Azerbaijani freestyle wrestler competing in the 57 kg division. He won the gold medal in the 57 kg event at the 2023 European Wrestling Championships held in Zagreb, Croatia.[1]

Life

Aliabbas Rzazadeh was born on May 21, 1998, in the village of Rudekanar, Astara district.

Career

In 2021, he won the silver medal in the men's 57 kg event at the 2021 European U23 Wrestling Championship held in Skopje, North Macedonia.[2]

Aliabbas Rzazade won the gold medal in the men's freestyle 57 kg at the 2021 U23 World Wrestling Championships held in Belgrade, Serbia.[3] [4]

In 2022, Rzazade won the gold medal in his event at the Matteo Pellicone Ranking Series 2022 held in Rome, Italy.[5] He won one of the bronze medals in the men's 57 kg event at the 2021 Islamic Solidarity Games held in Konya, Turkey.[6] He competed in the 57kg event at the 2022 World Wrestling Championships held in Belgrade, Serbia.[7]

Rzazade won the silver medal in the 57kg event at the 2022 European Wrestling Championships held in Budapest, Hungary.[8] [9] Rzazadeh won his first European title in his career by defeating his opponent with a score of 12: 2 in the final match of the 2023 European Championship held in Zagreb, the capital of Croatia.[10] [11]

Rzazade competed at the 2024 European Wrestling Olympic Qualification Tournament in Baku, Azerbaijan and he earned a quota place for Azerbaijan for the 2024 Summer Olympics in Paris, France.[12] He competed in the men's freestyle 57kg event at the Olympics.[13] He was eliminated in his first match by eventual bronze medalist Gulomjon Abdullaev of Uzbekistan.[13]

Achievements

YearTournamentLocationResultEvent
2022European ChampionshipsBudapest, Hungary2ndFreestyle 57kg
Islamic Solidarity GamesKonya, Turkey3rdFreestyle 57kg
2023European ChampionshipsZagreb, Croatia1stFreestyle 57kg

Notes and References

  1. Web site: RZAZADE Aliabbas profile page. 2021-11-07. 2021-11-07. https://web.archive.org/web/20211107002321/https://uww.org/athletes/rzazade-aliabbas. live.
  2. Web site: European Championships. 2021-11-07. 2021-05-19. https://web.archive.org/web/20210519185100/https://uww.org/event/european-championships-24?tab=results. live.
  3. Web site: World Championships. United World Wrestling. 2021-11-07. 2021-09-13. https://web.archive.org/web/20210913072525/https://uww.org/event/world-championships-57. live.
  4. Web site: 2021 U23 World Wrestling Championships Results Book. live. https://web.archive.org/web/20211110104150/https://cdn.uww.org/s3fs-public/2021-11/results_11_belgrade.pdf?VersionId=q9PpC48NYmp7wndhAvjEjk6GB7FF03OG. 10 November 2021. 10 November 2021. United World Wrestling.
  5. Web site: Matteo Pellicone Ranking Series 2022 Results Book . https://web.archive.org/web/20220625194934/https://cdn.uww.org/s3fs-public/2022-06/final-book-matteo_pellicone.pdf?VersionId=qzK3za9J0rNgcVjK8V3USdzHshFpyOIW . 25 June 2022 . 25 June 2022 . United World Wrestling.
  6. Web site: 2021 Islamic Solidarity Games Results Book . https://web.archive.org/web/20220818181226/https://cdn.uww.org/s3fs-public/2022-08/results_08_konya.pdf?VersionId=XCsODGzAzjjRhgEoc5SPJ7BmwV3S65G1 . 18 August 2022 . 20 August 2022 . United World Wrestling.
  7. Web site: 2022 World Wrestling Championships Results Book . https://web.archive.org/web/20220918183512/https://cdn.uww.org/s3fs-public/2022-09/final-book-2022-senior-world-championships_compressed.pdf?VersionId=zoTz_Ra8zK5EkVhfrZuDG5THXf4.3ik. . 18 September 2022 . 18 September 2022 . United World Wrestling.
  8. News: Pavitt . Michael . 29 March 2022 . Egorov wins rare North Macedonian gold at European Wrestling Championships . . 30 March 2022 . 2 April 2022 . https://web.archive.org/web/20220402004954/https://www.insidethegames.biz/articles/1121213/egorov-european-wrestling-championships . live .
  9. Web site: 2022 European Wrestling Championships Results Book . https://web.archive.org/web/20220403191311/https://cdn.uww.org/s3fs-public/2022-04/2022_senior_european_championships_official_results.pdf?VersionId=KEoKJnjfNdVsB13voNEJO9gMUHnyIlq0 . 3 April 2022 . 3 April 2022 . United World Wrestling.
  10. https://special.azertag.az/en/xeber/2579738 Azerbaijani wrestler wins gold medal at European championship
  11. https://en.trend.az/azerbaijan/society/3737299.html Azerbaijan national team wins first medal at European Wrestling Championship in Zagreb
  12. Web site: 2024 European Wrestling Olympic Qualification Tournament Results Book . https://web.archive.org/web/20240408164811/https://cdn.uww.org/2024-04/final-book-seniors_european_og_qualifier.pdf . 8 April 2024 . 8 April 2024 . United World Wrestling.
  13. Web site: Wrestling Results Book . https://web.archive.org/web/20240811181048/https://olympics.com/OG2024/pdf/OG2024/WRE/OG2024_WRE_B99_WRE-------------------------------.pdf . 11 August 2024 . 12 August 2024 . 2024 Summer Olympics.