Gabala’s karate challenger Rafiz Hasanov, fighting also for the Azerbaijan national team, won the Karate 1 Premier League in Salzburg, Austria. In the final match, he beat Luca Maresca from Italy with 3:1 at the Sporthalle Alpenstrasse arena. It’s worth to remember the 67-kg challenger’s earlier matches where he defeated Mussa Bekhultan (Kazakhstan) with 11:2, Devid Nhuyen (Belarus) with 2:0, Tomas Keserer (Austria) with 5:0 and Burak Uygur (Turkey) with 6:2. Now Hasanov is going to face Luka Mareska (Italy) in the all-important match.

Now he hot the gold medal of the WKF contest joined by 625 challengers from 88 countries.