The word “armwrestling” is translated into Azerbaijan language as “qol guleshi”.The official name of Azerbaijan Armwrestling Federation is –“Azerbaydjan Qol Guləshi Federasiyası (AQGF). In translation to Russian it will become Azerbaydjanskaya Federatsiya Rukoborstva (AFR). Later in the text we will relate to our federation as AQGF.

Azerbaijan Armwrestling Federation (AQGF) was established in 2009.The AQGF president is Jasarat Ahmadov.

Jasarat Ahmadov was born in a simple, hard-working family in 1978, in the Nakhchivan Autonomous Republic. In 1995, after graduating from high school, Jasarat Ahmadov enetered the faculty of Economics at the Azerbaijan Architecture and Construction University and graduated from this university in 2000.

In 2001-2002 he served in the Presidential Guard of the Azerbaijan Republic. He was awarded for excellent service. He has gone in for sport in 1995. He was the champion of the country in armwrestling and kung-fu.

In 2008 he was elected to the post of president of the Azerbaijan Armwrestling Federation(AFA).With Jasarat Ahmadov’s arrival to the management of AAF the sport has reached a higher level in the process of development. First of all, it was necessary to fill our youth with enthusiasm and involve them in this sport. For this purpose in 2008, under the leadership and with the help of Jasarat Ahmadov the special TV program “Over the top” was aired. Transmissions of this project on public TV channel (“Ictimai”TV) caused great interest of the audience. After this TV project armwrestling get a much wider recognition in Azerbaijan, caught the attention of people and admiration of masses. But the charter of Azerbaijan Armwrestling Federation didn't meet the new requirements and limited opportunities for development. For this reason, in 2009, J.Ahmadov founded AQGF.

In 2009, right after the establishment of AQGF for effective activity of the organization , J.Ahmadov provided his personal apartment for the main office of the federation. It is necessary to note that this apartment is situated in IchariShahar-the historical cultural city center of Baku, the capital of Azerbaijan. After that began a wide spread of new sports clubs and regional representations of AQGF. The purpose was set to make armwrestling a mass sport, to reveal and involve the potential of the youth. This process now proceeds dynamically. For today about 30 representations of AQGF act in more than 15 regions of the country. Certainly all these measures began to give positive results. Internal competitions are carried out at higher level and at the international competitions the Azerbaijani athletes achieve good results. In the 2009 the new television project “Over the top-2” was run. It gave new dynamics to the development of armwrestling in Azerbaijan.

Jasarat Ahmadov in his presentations at international meetings always notes the inner policy pursued by the president of Azerbaijan IlhamAliyev and directed toward the development of sport in the country. The government of the country lends every kind of support to athletes and to the matter of the development of sport. Based on this support, Jasarat Ahmadov proposed the candidacy of Azerbaijan for holding the European championships in armwrestling in 2014. In September 2009,on an EAF conference held in Italy, taking into consideration the results of a vote, it was decided to confirm the candidacy of Azerbaijan.

IN 2010AQGF realized the next teleproject “League of the strong” which was transmitted on the “Leader” TV channel. The president of EAF Assen Hadjitodorov was present at the opening ceremony of this teleproject ,he came to Baku at JasaratAhmadov’s invitation. It is necessary to note that the activity of AQGF is highly appreciated by the president of EAF.

Athletes of AQGF regularly receive invitations for participation in official affairs. Special popularity is reserved for the festive events held in honor of thr holiday of spring - “NovruzBayramı”. The president of the Azerbaijan Republic Mr.Ilham Aliyev personally takes part in these festive events held every year. It is necessary to tell that the interest shown by the head of state to our sport is one of the major factors in promoting armwrestling in Azerbaijan.

Today the organizing committee operates under the leadership of Jasarat Ahmadov, it was specially created at AQGF for preparation and carrying out of the xxıv European championships. On March 5^th the president of WAF and EAF Assen Hajitodorov came to Baku for an inspection of works on the championships. During this visit Assen Hajitodorov was in the sports-olympic center Sarhadci, where the championships will be held, and he was in several hotels chosen for the athletes. Also A.Hajitodorov had official meetings with the head of the state television channel “IdmanAzərbaycan”,with the vice- president of the National Olympic Committee of Azerbaijan and with the Minister of Youth and Sports of Azerbaijan.

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