President meets Azerbaijani athletes ahead of Baku 2015
By Nigar Orujova
President Ilham Aliyev, First Lady and Chairperson of the Baku 2015 first European Games Organizing Committee Mehriban Aliyeva and family members visited the Athletes Village on June 9.
The head of state met athletes who will represent Azerbaijan in the first European Games.
Azerbaijan has pinned great hopes on its 320 athletes, who will represent the country during the inaugural Games.
Baku 2015 European Games will give opportunities to over 6,000 athletes to compete for medals in 20 sports.
Moreover, representative of 12 sports will be able to receive licenses to Rio 2016 Olympic Games. All these factors presuppose the hard-fought battle.
Earlier, the head of state signed an order on establishing remuneration for the highest results of the national athletes and their trainers at the first European Games.
The gold winners will receive 100,000 manats (over $95.300), silver winners will be granted with 50,000 manats (over $47,600), and bronze medal winners will receive 30,000 manats (over $28,600).
Along with this money award, the victory in the historic Games will bring all the Azerbaijani athletes great honor and respect.
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Nigar Orujova is AzerNews’s staff journalist, follow her on Twitter: @o_nigar
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