{"id":277196,"date":"2025-11-11T08:00:09","date_gmt":"2025-11-11T08:00:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/277196\/"},"modified":"2025-11-11T08:00:09","modified_gmt":"2025-11-11T08:00:09","slug":"azerbaijan-boxing-team-shines-at-6th-islamic-solidarity-games-with-6-medals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/277196\/","title":{"rendered":"Azerbaijan boxing team shines at 6th Islamic Solidarity Games with 6 medals"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" alt=\"Azerbaijan boxing team shines at 6th Islamic Solidarity Games with 6 medals\" title=\"Azerbaijan boxing team shines at 6th Islamic Solidarity Games with 6 medals\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/1762847756.webp.webp\" data-rjs=\"2\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Photo: Azerbaijan National Olympic Committee<\/p>\n<p><p>The boxing competitions at the 6th\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/news.az\/search?search=islamic_solidarity_games\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Islamic Solidarity Games<\/a> in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, have concluded, with the Azerbaijan national team securing an impressive 6-medal haul, including 1 gold, 3 silver, and 2 bronze.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t&#13;<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"296\" data-end=\"555\">Seyidjamshid Jafarov (80 kg) claimed the championship title, defeating Sultan Osmanl\u0131 from T\u00fcrkiye in a thrilling final with a 4:1 decision (28:29, 29:28, 30:27, 29:28, 30:27), earning Azerbaijan its first gold medal and playing the national anthem in Riyadh, <a href=\"https:\/\/news.az\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">News.Az<\/a> reports, citing the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.olympic.az\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Azerbaijan National Olympic Committee<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"557\" data-end=\"809\">Nargiz Zeynalova (54 kg) and Aynur Mikayilova (57 kg) both earned silver medals, while Mahammadali Gasimzade (60 kg) had to settle for silver after withdrawing from his final match due to injury, having been set to face Madiyar Daniyarov of Uzbekistan.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"811\" data-end=\"999\" data-is-last-node=\"\" data-is-only-node=\"\">The team&#8217;s overall medal count also included bronze medals from Fatima Mahdiyeva (65 kg) and Sarkhan Aliyev (70 kg), marking a successful finish to the Games for Azerbaijan&#8217;s boxing squad.<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/news.az\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">News.Az<\/a>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Photo: Azerbaijan National Olympic Committee The boxing competitions at the 6th\u00a0Islamic Solidarity Games in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, have&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":277197,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[571],"tags":[64,63,961,802,160735,16748,14640,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-277196","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-boxing","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-azerbaijan","11":"tag-boxing","12":"tag-islamic-solidarity-games","13":"tag-riyadh","14":"tag-saudi-arabia","15":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/277196","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=277196"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/277196\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/277197"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=277196"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=277196"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=277196"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}