AZerbaijan's Babayev wins European gold
Azerbaijan`s Nazim Babayev has grabbed a gold at the European Athletics Junior Championship held in Eskilstuna, Sweden.
Babayev showed the performance of the week with a stunning leap in the triple jump to smash a record that had stood for nearly 30 years on a final day of the 23rd European Athletics Junior Championships. He lit up the final with 17.04m to break a championship record that was set in Cottbus back in August 1985
Italian Tobia Bocchi (16.51m) and Ukrainian Pavlo Beznits (16.10m) have shared 2nd and 3rd places respectively, AzerTac state news agency reported.
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