Sport in Azerbaijan Greco-Roman wrestling, particularly freestyle, are popular in Azerbaijan. With a history of great wrestlers, such as Namig Abdullayev, Farid Mansurov, Rovshan Bayramov, and Mariya Stadnik, Azerbaijan is considered among the elite nations in this sport. Azerbaijan Wrestling Federation was established in 1959 as part of the USSR Wrestling Federation. After Azerbaijan Wrestling Federation was established in 1993, and officially admitted to the International Federation of Associated Wrestling Styles at FILA Headquarters in Lausanne, Switzerland in the same year. During 1993-1997, Etibar Sardar oglu Mammadov was the President, Abbas Aydin oglu Abbasov the Vice President and Khanmirza Khanbala oglu Malikaliyev the
International Inline-Skater hockey Federation International Inline-Skater hockey Federation The International Inline-Skater hockey Federation (IISHF) is an international sporting federation that internationally organizes skater hockey. Each of the ten member-countries organized in their national governing bodies. Skater hockey is a roller sport and team sport played with a plastic ball. The game is played using roller skates, either inline skates such as found in inline hockey or quad skates such as found in rink hockey. Both variants of skates are allowed by the IISHF (Codebook "5.2 Players’ Skates"). A game is played by two teams, and each team is permitted to have 5 players on