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Date of 1st European Games 2015 in Azerbaijan and initial list of kinds of sports made public - PHOTOSESSION

Date of 1st European Games 2015 in Azerbaijan and initial list of kinds of sports made public - <span style="color: red;">PHOTOSESSION

30 April 2013 14:06 (UTC +04:00)

At the press conference on the outcomes of the first meeting of the Coordination Commission of European Olympic Committee “Baku-2015, European Games”, Minister said that the 1st European Games will be held on June 12-28. 6351 sportsmen on 19 kinds of sports will compete in the games.

These are archery (128 sportsmen), water sports (swimming, water polo, diving - 1000), athletics (800), badminton (160), basketball (3x3, 160), box (300), canoe (350), cycling (BMX, mountain bike, road bike -350), beach soccer (256), gymnastics (modern rhythmic gymnastics, gymnastics, tumbling and acrobatics - 406), judo (350), karate (96), shooting (trap and bullet -464), table tennis (128), taekwondo (128), triathlon (125), volleyball (beach and court -464), wrestling (450) and fencing (350). Chairman of the first European Games Coordination Commission Spyros Capralos said that this is not the final list.

Azad Rahimov said Azerbaijan’s national teams on most kinds of sports are being formed. He said only triathlon does not exist in Azerbaijan.