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Angolan athlete: I'm honored to perform in National Gymnastics Arena in Baku

18 September 2019 18:43 (UTC+04:00)
Angolan athlete: I'm honored to perform in National Gymnastics Arena in Baku

By Trend

The World Championships in Baku is excellently organized, Angolan athlete Alice Tomas told Trend after performing at the qualification competitions of the 37th Rhythmic Gymnastics World Championships.

"I am pleased with my performance today, everything went fine. But I hope to show the best results tomorrow," Tomas said.

"Baku has an amazing gymnastics arena, a wonderful training room. We do not have such conditions in our country, and therefore, it is a real honor for us to perform here," the athlete stressed.

The 37th Rhythmic Gymnastics World Championships will last until Sept. 22.

The Championships is the qualification competition for the Olympic Games to be held in Tokyo in 2020. As such, the first 16 individual gymnasts (max. two gymnasts per country) in the all-around ranking will qualify for the Games.

As for the gymnasts within group exercises, Bulgaria, Russia and Italy have already qualified according to the results of the last World Championships. At this year’s Championships, the best five teams will qualify for the Tokyo-2020 Olympic Games according to the all-around scores.

More than 300 gymnasts from 61 countries are competing for nine sets of medals. “Fairy Tales will come to life" is the motto of the championships.

Nine gymnasts are representing Azerbaijan at the World Championship, which is being held at the National Gymnastics Arena. Zohra Agamirova, Veronika Hudis, Yelyzaveta Luzan and Maryam Safarova perform in individual competitions. Ayshan Bayramova, Diana Ahmadbayli, Aliya Pashayeva, Zeynab Hummatova and Darya Sorokina participate in group exercises as part of the Azerbaijani team.

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