Belarusian taekwondist Aliyev completed his performance at the Youth Olympic Games in Dakar

Belarusian Bogdan Aliyev dropped out of the fight at the start of the Taekwondo competition at the IV Summer Youth Olympic Games in Dakar. It's reported by sb.by.

Our athlete competed in the weight category over 73 kg and started the tournament with the quarterfinals. In this match, Aliyev lost in two rounds to the representative of Spain Ivan Lysenko Serrano, the winner of last year’s European Youth Olympic Festival in Skopje.

On November 12, the last representative of Belarus will speak at the Games - breaker George Solovey.

At the moment, the Belarusian team has two bronze medals of the prestigious tournament. Swimmer Maxim Mashlyakevich took third place at the distance of 50 m breaststroke, and Polina Belyavskaya became a prize-winner in swimming in the 50 m freestyle.

The Youth Games in the Senegalese capital gathered more than 2,600 athletes under the age of 18 from 204 countries. The closing ceremony of the first ever Olympic competition on the African continent will be held on November 13. Belarusian rapier Maslov entered the eight at the Youth Olympic Games in Senegal Photo: Telegram channel NOC