Aliabbas Rzazade

Aliabbas Rzazade (born 1 January 1998) is an Azerbaijani freestyle wrestler competing in the 57 kg division. He won the gold medal in the 57 kg event at the 2023 European Wrestling Championships held in Zagreb, Croatia.

Life
Aliabbas Rzazadeh was born on May 21, 1998, in the village of Rudekanar, Astara district.

Career
In 2021, he won the silver medal in the men's 57 kg event at the 2021 European U23 Wrestling Championship held in Skopje, North Macedonia.

Aliabbas Rzazade won the gold medal in the men's freestyle 57 kg at the 2021 U23 World Wrestling Championships held in Belgrade, Serbia.

In 2022, he won the gold medal in his event at the Matteo Pellicone Ranking Series 2022 held in Rome, Italy. He won one of the bronze medals in the men's 57 kg event at the 2021 Islamic Solidarity Games held in Konya, Turkey. He competed in the 57kg event at the 2022 World Wrestling Championships held in Belgrade, Serbia.

He won the silver medal in the 57kg event at the 2022 European Wrestling Championships held in Budapest, Hungary. Rzazadeh won his first European title in his career by defeating his opponent with a score of 12: 2 in the final match of the 2023 European Championship held in Zagreb, the capital of Croatia.

He competed at the 2024 European Wrestling Olympic Qualification Tournament in Baku, Azerbaijan and he earned a quota place for Azerbaijan for the 2024 Summer Olympics in Paris, France.