Another Azerbaijani veteran athlete has won a medal at the European Kickboxing Championships in Skopje, the capital of North Macedonia.
Fanat.az reports that the medallist is Fuad Zeynalov, a major in the State Border Service and an Honoured Master of Sport.
He competed in the masters’ 94kg kick-light category. The 43-year-old reached the final by beating Paolo Carlotti (Italy) 3–0 and then Bartosz Tomaszewski (Poland) 2–0.
Zeynalov had to settle for silver after losing 2–1 to Yusif Tktok (Israel) in the final. A warning issued to Zeynalov during the bout also stood in the way of his bid for gold.
Fuad Zeynalov previously won bronze at the 2024 European Championships in Athens, the capital of Greece. In May this year, he won both the light-contact and kick-light events at the World Cup in Antalya, Turkey.
Eduard Mammadov, head of the Sports Training Department at the Ministry of Internal Affairs Sports Society, a police colonel and vice-president of the Azerbaijan Kickboxing Federation, also became European champion in both the 63kg light-contact and kick-light categories in Skopje.
This article was translated from Azerbaijani with the help of AI. Original in Azerbaijani
