Azerbaijani athlete won a prestigious tournament to combat Russia

In Russian Krasnoyarsk, the traditional tournament in the memory of the 2-fold Olympic champion Ivan Yarygin is held.

It is involved in the women’s national team of Azerbaijan. Today it became known that the gold medal at the tournament won the representative of our country Alena Kolesnik (59 kg).

She alternately defeated the Russian Julia Artyishko, an athlete from Mongolia Shovdur Baatarezav, and then two more representatives of Russia – Julia Alborov and Zhargalm Tsiren.

Before that, our team spent two weeks in Krasnoyarsk together with Russian national teams, Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan.