Nearly 300 athletes to represent Azerbaijan at Baku 2015

  30 May 2015    Read: 1311
Nearly 300 athletes to represent Azerbaijan at Baku 2015
Azerbaijan will be represented by 291 athletes at the Baku 2015 European Games, said the head of the Azerbaijani delegation, Konul Nurullayeva on May 29.
She said that overall Azerbaijani team will consist of 441 people, 291 of them athletes.

“I believe the Azerbaijani athletes will make us happy performing at a high level,” Nurullayeva added.

Baku 2015 is the first ever European Games, an exciting and innovative multi-sport event for the continent which will take place on June 12-28, 2015.

There will be a total of 20 sports at Baku 2015: 16 Olympic sports and four non-Olympic sports. More than 6,000 athletes from across Europe will be representing their nations over 17 days of competition.

Baku was awarded the games by the European Olympic Committees (EOC) in December 2012.

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