On June 26-27, sambo competitions are held within the VIII International Sports Games "Children of Asia" held in Yakutia, Sakha Republic of the Russian Federation.

Offsideplus.az reports that our sambo athletes Yusif Huseynov (49 kg), Ibrahim Talibov (53 kg), Raul Khalilov (64 kg) and Sajjad Jabarli (79 kg) represent Azerbaijan.

On June 26, Ibrahim Talibov, who competed in the 53 kg weight class, defeated his Kazakh opponent Ontalap Sagindig in the quarter-final stage. In the semi-finals, our athlete lost to local sambo player Ivan Lapushkina. He won the bronze medal by defeating another local athlete Viktor Valov in the fight for the bronze medal.