Turkmen athletes completed their performance at the 3rd CIS Games, which took place over 11 days in seven Azerbaijani cities: Ganja, Yevlakh, Mingachevir, Gabala, Sheki, Goygol, and Khankendi, with two bronze medals, The Golden age electronic newspaper reports.
As previously reported, the first medal for the Turkmenistan team was earned by Hangeldi Lukmanov, an 11th-grade student at Ashgabat secondary school № 52. The 16-year-old student of Nursahet Pazzyyev achieved this feat in the super bantamweight (52 kg) boxing tournament, which featured nine athletes competing at the Yevlakh Olympic Centre.
Greco-Roman wrestler Aslan Agadadayev won his second bronze in the 110 kg weight class, a competition that included five athletes. In his opening bout, he defeated Azerbaijani Rauf Mutallimov 2-0, then lost 0-3 to eventual winner Dmitriy Kochurov of Russia. In his third bout, Agadadayev confidently defeated Belarusian Daniil Maslakov 3-0, before losing 1-5 to silver medalist Sayidamir Nematov of Uzbekistan, ultimately finishing third.
Earlier this year, Aslan Agadadayev, an 11th-grade student at the Turkmen-Turkish Secondary school, won a bronze medal in Greco-Roman wrestling at the Asian U17 Championships in Vung Tau, Vietnam.
The III CIS Games were attended by 1,624 athletes under 23 years of age from 13 countries, who competed for 246 sets of medals in 23 disciplines.
