www.judoinside.com 22/09
Ramazan Abdulaev captures lightweight gold against compatriot Zairbekov
The Russian fighters showed their strength in Baku at the Grand Slam with both participants in the final Gamzat Zairbekov (AIN) and Ramazan Abdulaev (AIN) who secured places. It was a surprising day in U60kg and in the final with less than a minute to go, Ramazan Abdulaev took the lead after a well trained and applied sode-guruma-jime technique, which allowed him to pin down his opponent for a waza-ari. The last seconds were a tactical battle that Ramazan Abdulaev dominated to take gold.