Azerbaijani judokas Ajdar Bagirov and Kenan Nasibov have won gold at the U-23 European Judo Championships in Naples, Italy.

Axar.az reports, citing the Azerbaijan Judo Federation, that Bagirov claimed the European title in the -100kg category after defeating Germany’s Yannis Bashi in the final. On his way to the gold medal bout, he beat Ivan Kutenkov of Ukraine, Borna Butijer of Croatia and Ronald Proel of Austria.

Nasibov also struck gold in the +100kg category, defeating Serbia’s Vidak Maljevic in the final to defend his title and become a back-to-back U-23 European champion. His route to the final included victories over Luka Ivankovic of Croatia, Yan Rigo of France and Morteza Sohan of Germany.

Azerbaijan finished the individual competition with three gold medals, securing first place in the overall team standings. Islam Rahimov had earlier won gold in the -66kg category, becoming a U-23 European champion for the second year in a row.