Azerbaijani athlete Javid Chalabiyev gained a victory over Moldavian athlete Dorin Bucsa and reached the quarter-finals.
Chalabiyev will also take part in the competitions on June 26. Before Chalabiyev, athletes representing Azerbaijan - Rufat Huseynov (49 kilograms) and Lorenzo Sotomayor (69 kilograms) reached the quarter-finals a well.
The second European Games are being held in Minsk, in which 82 athletes are representing Azerbaijan.
The first European Games were held in 2015 in Baku.
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