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Azerbaijani gymnasts leave step away from medal

6 October 2015 14:07 (UTC+04:00)
Azerbaijani gymnasts leave step away from medal

By Amina Nazarli

The 27th European Championships in Acrobatic Gymnastics was held in German Riesa city from September 25 to October 4.

At the competitions, Azerbaijan was represented by a senior women’s group. The trio, consisting of Aynur Huseynova, Lala Huseynova and Narmin Ramazanova, stopped a step away from the bronze medal taking the fourth place in the all-around.

In spite of the fact that Huseynova was competing with injured ankle, the girls succeeded in improving their all-around result within slightly more than three months period after the Baku 2015 1st European Games where they were the fifth.

According to the results of the qualifications, the women’s group reached both finals. In balance exercises, the group lost their chance to win the bronze which was so close to them again. Having received 27, 640 points from the judges, the trio lost just 0.06 points to a Russian group (27.700) taken the third place.

Earlier, men’s and mixed pair athletes in the 12-18 age groups successfully performed at the competition.

After a final combined exercise that received 27.650 points from the judges, the men’s pair of Seymur Jafarov and Murad Akparov won a silver medal.

The mixed pair Aghasif Rahimov and Nurjan Jabbarli became bronze medalists. In this category, first and second places were taken by gymnasts from Portugal and Russia.

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Amina Nazarli is AzerNews’ staff journalist, follow her on Twitter: @amina_nazarli

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