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Our team returns to the European TeamGym Championships after a 3 years break

05 December 2021

Our team returns to the European TeamGym Championships after a 3 years break

From December 1-4, the European TeamGym Championships took place in Guimarães, Portugal.

At this competition, our representatives in the TeamGym discipline - Aghamurad Gahramanov, Tofig Aliyev, Adil Hajizadeh, Rasul Ahmadzadeh, Elnur Mammadov, Ramin Damirov, Anar Hasanov and Mansum Safarov - competed in the men's team event.

Representing a relatively new gymnastics discipline for our country, the team performed in the final round and placed 5th in the decisive stage.

TeamGym is a team-based gymnastics discipline under European Gymnastics. The Azerbaijan Gymnastics Federation (AGF) decided to include TeamGym in its activities in early 2018.

In October 2018, our national team participated in the European TeamGym Championships for the first time (held in Odivelas, Portugal), competing in the junior age category.

In 2019, the AGF organized training courses for local gymnasts and coaches in Baku. By 2020, our first TeamGym judges received their European judging qualifications.