Turkan Nasirova, runner-up at the 2012 Cadet World Championships and third at this year’s European Junior Championships, secured Azerbaijan’s first title with a 5-2 win against last year’s Junior World Championships bronze medallist, Rina Okuno of Japan, in the 44 kilogram category.

The youngster used an opening four-point manoeuvre to burst into the lead, and although Okuno fought back in the second, earning a takedown and coming within a second of completing a match-winning equaliser, Nasirova managed to see out the victory.

Azerbaijan picked up their second gold in the following 51kg contest as Leyla Gurbanova won a topsy-turvy encounter against 2014 cadet world champion Olena Kremzer of Ukraine, 10-7.

The match came down to a final takedown attempted by an exhausted Kremzer, who was flattened upon entry and conceded both the final two points and the title to an ecstatic Gurbanova.

The 44kg bronze medals went to Belarus’ Kseniya Stankevich and Russia’s Nadezhda Sarazhkova at the expense of Kazakhstan’s Svetlana Ankicheva and Venezuela’s Naiyeis Gutierrez respectively.

Italy’s Arianna Carieri won one of the two 51kg bronze medal matches against Kazakhstan’s Marina Zuyeva and was joined on the third step of the podium by Russia’s Ksenia Nezgovorova, who beat Japan’s Momoka Kadoya.

Japan’s slide continued at 59kg as Sweden’s Elin Nilsson used a pair of four-point throws, including an impressive pancake-to-headlock combo, to best 2012 cadet world champion Yoshimi Kayama, 8-2.

The 2014 Junior European Championships bronze medallist was in control from the outset and it remained that way for the entirety of the six-minute encounter.

The bronze medals were won by Mexico’s Alejandra Bonilla, who defeated Canada’s Jessica Brouillette, and Russia’s Maria Kuznetsova, up against Romania’s Kristina Inceze.

The Japanese side captured their only gold medal at 67kg as two-time defending junior world champion Masako Furuichi powered past Sweden’s Moa Nygren by technical fall, 10-0.

Furuichi hit three takedowns and added a pair of exposures to put the match away in the first frame.

Ukraine’s Alla Belinska got her hands on a bronze medal by overcoming Turkey’s Asli Tugcu, while Azerbaijan’s Elis Manolova beat Norway’s Signe Fidje Store to the other.

The action in Salvador da Bahia continues tomorrow with women’s wrestling at 48kg, 55kg, 63kg, and 72kg. 



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