President of the Federation of Sports Journalists of Azerbaijan Gabil Mehdiyev wrote about this on his Facebook page, Offsideplus.az reports. He posted "A total of 478 Azerbaijani athletes fought in the Great Patriotic War. 54 of them were killed, 51 were injured and two of our athletes were missing." 

In addition, four of Azerbaijani sports journalists took part in the war and one of them was wounded.