Horst Kunze: Azerbaijan ready to host European Championship in Trampoline Gymnastics

Azerbaijan is ready to host the European Championship in Trampoline Gymnastics in 2018, Horst Kunze, president of the FIG Trampoline Gymnastics Technical Committee, told Trend March 5.

He noted the outstanding level of organization of the FIG World Cup in Trampoline Gymnastics in Baku.

“Azerbaijan easily organizes various events and everything is ready for this,” said Kunze.

He said that before he was in Baku 10 years ago at a meeting of the FIG Executive Committee.

“The city has changed. A magnificent gymnastics arena, which is liked by all athletes, was built,” added Kunze.

The FIG World Cup in Trampoline Gymnastics will be held at the National Gymnastics Arena March 5-6.

Mens and womens individual and synchronized gymnastics qualification events will be held on the first day of the World Cup.

Together with leader of the Azerbaijani national team in trampoline gymnastics, bronze medalist of the Baku 2015 First European Games, Ilya Grishunin, Azerbaijan will be represented at the World Cup by gold medalist of the Open Azerbaijan Championships Oleg Piunov, Dmitriy Fedorovskiy and Ruslan Aghamirov, as well as by female athletes – finalist of the First European Games Sviatlana Makshtarova and Sabina Zaitseva.

Athletes from Europe, Japan, Australia and the US will participate in the World Cup, which opens the first season of the Olympic competitions.

Overall, 77 gymnasts (46 men and 31 women), who represent 17 countries, will participate in the competitions.

Following the first day of the qualification event, the competitions will complete by finals the next day.

Spectators at the event will be able to participate in various contests and receive gifts from organizers.

/By Trend/