The Azerbaijani athlete remained positive after this narrowest of defeats, saying: "I would like to have taken gold. I couldn't do what I wanted to do so unfortunately I got silver. But it doesn't matter, everything feels great."

Next up, Belarusian shooter Vitali Bubnovich went into the final shot of the competition 1.1 points behind Niccolo Campriani - and still won gold. The remarkable result left Bubnovich "the happiest man in the world" - and one with a ticket to the Rio 2016 Olympic Games.

Wrestling matches don't typically last long, but today's contest between Turkey's Yasemin Adar and Oksana Vashchuk in the 75kg quarter-final was over inside 30 seconds in a pinfall victory. Adar wasn't able to take her momentum into her next match, however, losing to eventual silver medallist Ekaterina Bukina of Russia.  

In the day's first round of the men's Table Tennis, Slovenia's Bojan Tokic overcame Ivan Katkov of Ukraine in a seemingly routine 4-0 victory. Routine, except, that is, for the extraordinary point he scored which bounced three times, completely wrong-footing the hapless Katkov.

Finally, an epic Beach Volleyball rally once again saw Ukraine on the wrong side of Lady Luck, as the net intervened to give Azerbaijan a point in their preliminary round victory.

 

(Baku2015.com)