Joint Azerbaijan Championships in gymnastics continues in Baku

/By AzerNews/

By Amina Nazarli

Second day of the Joint Azerbaijan Championships among Age Categories in Artistic and Acrobatic Gymnastics started at the National Gymnastics Arena in Baku on December 4.

Today, the arena is hosting women's artistic gymnastics, binging together the representatives of the Olympic style competition.

Girls representing Baku’s gymnastics school, “Netchi” and “Ojag Sport” born in 2003-2005, 2006-2007, 2008-2009, and 2008-2010 compete in the all around.

Tomorrow, the championships will see the last day, gathering male acrobats born in 1998-2000, 2001-2002, 2003-2004, 2005-2006 and 2007-2008 will compete for the title.

The three-day competition brings together 62 athletes from different national gymnastic schools. All the competitions start at 12:00.

The coaching staff includes head coach of the Azerbaijani national team in Olympic style Nina Pravdina, trainers Sabina Khairova and Lala Bashirova, as well as head coach in acrobatics Irada Gurbanova and head coach of men's artistic gymnastics Pavlo Netreba.