Azerbaijani gymnasts win 5 gold medals in Poland - UPDATE

Azerbaijan Gymnastics Federation reported that 13-year-old athlete Zuleykha Ismayilova gained three of the five gold medals. First, she amazed all with her performance with clubs and ribbon, and then with an exercise in the all-around competition.

Azerbaijan's junior team, including Nilufar Niftalyeva, Gulsum Shafizade, Sabina Hummatova, Aynur Mustafayeva and Emilia Bagiyeva, performed in Poland individually and won two medals. The girls, who now prepare for the main important event of the year - the European Championships in Austria, due from May 31 to June 2, performed 2.5 minutes on the Polish arena and left everyone behind in the all-around and in the final.

Coach of the national team Mariana Vasileva, commenting on this brilliant performance, said that the girls are becoming more confident with every tournament and showing visible progress.

"I believe that the public will accept them as well at the Grand Prix in Thiey at the end of this week and the World Cup in Lisbon in early April," she said.

Earlier, Azerbaijani women's acrobatic gymnastics pair, Aynur Huseynova and Narmin Ramazanova, became all-around winner of the international tournament among juniors held within the framework of the World Cup Series in Portuguese Maia.

The judges unanimously affirmed the victory of the Huseynova-Ramazanova duo and made the decision to give the Maia's "Gold" to the Azerbaijani acrobats.

Also, bronze medals were brought to Baku by another women's pair -- Lala Huseynova and Khoshgadam Guliyeva -- participating in their age group, and by men's pair in acrobatic gymnastics, consisting of Elchin Alibayov and Emin Gulmammadli.