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By Amina Nazarli

The Azerbaijani National Olympic Committee held its last meeting to award the national winners of the 1st European Games.

The event was attended by Chingiz Huseynzade, the vice president of the NOC.

Addressing the ceremony, Huseynzade said that this meeting is the last one in the framework of the “Victory Days”, held to award the national winners.

The vice president stressed he is proud of Azerbaijan’s successes at the Baku 2015 Games.

Huseynzade went on saying that the closing ceremony was held at a high level. He added that President Ilham Aliyev will receive all the athletes who won medals at the European Games.

During the ceremony gold medalists Abdulkadir Abdullayev (91kg) and Collazo Sotomayor (64kg), silver medalist Khaybulla Musalov (75kg), as well as bronze medalists Tayfur Aliyev (56kg)and Mahammadrasul Majidov (+91kg) were awarded diplomas and gifts.

Azerbaijan was represented at the European Games with 285 athletes. The country ended the Games with 56 medals including 21 gold, 15 silver and 20 bronze, standing the second among 50 countries.

The inaugural European Games held for 17 days in Baku were attended by best 6,000 athletes across Europe. Twenty sports were featured at the Games, some 16 of which were Olympic and four non-Olympic.

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