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Azerbaijani boxer Subhan Babayev has kicked off the U-19
\nEuropean Championship with a win, Azernews
\nreports.<\/p>\n
The national team member competing in the 60 kg weight category
\neliminated Luka Crnogorac (Croatia) in the round of 16.<\/p>\n
The boxer defeated his opponent with a score of 3:1 (29:27,
\n28:27, 29:27, 28:28, 27:29).<\/p>\n
Babayev will face Simonas Puniskis (Lithuania) in the
\nquarterfinals. The bout is scheduled for October 4.<\/p>\n
It should be noted that the European Championship will conclude
\non October 9.<\/p>\n
Boxing is recognized as one of the oldest sports in human
\nhistory, with the earliest records of the sport dating back to
\nancient Egypt around 3,000 BC.<\/p>\n
The Greeks introduced boxing to the ancient Olympic Games in the
\nlate 7th century BC.<\/p>\n
In 1924, the International Amateur Boxing Federation (FIBA) was
\nfounded, and in 1946, it was renamed the International Boxing
\nAssociation (AIBA). Boxing made its Olympic debut at the 1904 Games
\nin St. Louis.<\/p>\n
Azerbaijan hosted its first boxing championship in 1926, with
\nnational boxers claiming first place. Since 1992, the Azerbaijani
\nBoxing Federation has been a full member of AIBA.<\/p>\n
Azerbaijani boxers have earned numerous prestigious accolades in
\ninternational competitions. Aghasi Mammadov made history by
\nbecoming Azerbaijan’s first gold medalist at the World
\nChampionships. Fuad Asadov also earned a spot on the podium at the
\n2004 Summer Olympics.<\/p>\n
Azerbaijan has been chosen multiple times to host major boxing
\nevents.<\/p>\n
In 2019, Baku hosted the AIBA Youth World Championships, which
\nwas the first youth tournament to serve as a qualifier for the 2010
\nSingapore Olympics.<\/p>\n
The country also hosted the 2011 AIBA World Boxing
\nChampionships, which served as the primary qualification event for
\nthe London 2012 Olympics.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Azerbaijani boxer Subhan Babayev has kicked off the U-19 European Championship with a win, Azernews reports. The national…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":187455,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[571],"tags":[9872,64,63,961,9874,9870,802,1348,174,1048,164,9873,9871,84,9869,85,940,1346],"class_list":["post-187454","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-boxing","tag-analytics","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-azerbaijan","tag-azernews","tag-baku","tag-boxing","tag-breaking-news","tag-business-news","tag-company-news","tag-economy","tag-financial-news","tag-oil-and-gas-news","tag-politics","tag-socar","tag-sports","tag-turkey","tag-world-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187454","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=187454"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187454\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/187455"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=187454"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=187454"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=187454"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}