Albania hopes for a medal in Paris 2024 thanks to Zelimkhan Abarakov. The red and black wrestler has done the job in front of the rival from Guinea-Bissau, Diamantino Iuna Fafe, securing a place among the eight best in the world in the discipline of freestyle wrestling up to 57 kg.

Albania is represented in the Olympic Games, “Paris 2024” in the wrestling by three foreign athletes naturalized as Albanians.

The 31-year-old Zelimkhan Abakarov, who today qualified for the quarterfinals of the Olympic Games, is the first wrestler who gave Albania the first place in the world two years ago, while in Paris he seeks to win the first Olympic medal for our country.

Tomorrow between 11:00 and 13:30, it will be the turn of Chermen Valiev.

The 26-year-old Valiev defeated an Olympic champion in the qualifying round for France while seeking an Olympic medal in Paris.

On Saturday, August 10, the competition for Albania ends with Islam Dudaev, another wrestler who has shown a positive progress and pretends to be in the medal zone.

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