The world championship among junior taekwondo players has ended in Sofia, the capital of Bulgaria.

According to the information provided by the Taekwondo Federation to apasport.az website, the last day of the competition was also successful for the Azerbaijani national team.

Today, 2 more taekwondo players of our team, which has 1 gold and 1 bronze medal, have reached the podium.

Bahadur Dostuyev, one of the national members, concluded his speech with an award.

The athlete fighting in the 49 kg weight class defeated Jakub Soltsiak from Poland in his debut match - 2:0.

His opponent in the 1/8 finals was Zaid Perez (Mexico).

The tense battle ended with a 2:1 victory for our representative.

Dostuyev was stronger than Apostolos Panagopoulos (Greece) in the 1/4 finals (2:0).

Our taekwondo player faced Eunselok Lee (South Korea) in the semi-finals.

Bahadur won the bronze medal because the opponent called the stage.

His success was repeated by Yunis Huseynov (61 kg).

Our compatriot has won the right to participate in the semi-finals after eliminating Lebanese Joey Yusif, Indian Gitish and Montenegrin Enes Dushki.

Huseynov, who faced Nika Gogoberidze (Georgia) on the way to the final, lost and took the 3rd place.

Thus, Azerbaijan's national team finished the 4-day World Cup in which more than 670 athletes from 77 countries participated with 1 gold and 3 bronze medals.

Before Dostuyev and Huseynov, Mehdi Budagli (33 kg) won the title of world champion, Fuad Maharlamli (45 kg) took the 3rd place.

This result marked 2 records in the history of Azerbaijani taekwondo.

While Mehdi Budagli won the first gold prize for our country in the competition of juniors, he signed the best indicator in the number of national medals.

Until now, our team has not won 4 awards in any world championship.

Before the competition in Sofia, the best result was recorded in Baku in 2014.

Our team finished that World Cup with 2 silver and 1 bronze medals.

It should be noted that the national team will return to the homeland on August 2.

The plane that will bring them will land at Heydar Aliyev International Airport at 01:40 and there will be a welcoming ceremony for the team.