Today.Az » Sports » Azerbaijani gymnasts win 5 gold medals in Poland - UPDATE
28 March 2013 [13:58] - Today.Az
By AzerNews
Azerbaijani gymnasts won all five gold medals at the international tournament Baltic Cup held in Gdynia, Poland.
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.
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