Azernews.Az

By Amina Nazarli

Joint Azerbaijan Championships among Age Categories in Artistic and Acrobatic Gymnastics kicked off at the National Gymnastics Arena in Baku on December 3.

The three-day competition brings together 62 athletes from different national gymnastic schools.

On the first day of the event, gymnastics fans witnessed performance of representatives of the Baku Gymnastics School, "Neftchi" sports club and Nizami district sports school.

The acrobats aged between 12 and 18, included in the men's and women’s mixed pair competitions, as well as men's and women's groups showed balance, tempo and combined exercises. The women’s pairs and groups belonging to 11-16 age group performed only execute balance and dynamic exercises. Overall, 43 gymnasts took part in the tournament.

In the competition of the women's groups aged 12-18 representatives of the Baku Gymnastics School Leyla Bashirova, Aygun Ahmadova and Nazrin Farmanova won the first place. Representatives of the Nizami district sports school Samira Ibrahimova, Ulviya Isgandarli and Maryam Gurbanova took the second place. The third place, in turn, went to the athletes of the “Neftchi” sports club including Elvira Huseynova, Arzu Melekzade and Fatima Nazarova.

In the women’s groups competitions among athletes aged 11- 16, the representatives of “Nefthci” club Samra Askarzade, Mina Beydiyeva and Jeyla Zekiryayeva secured the first place, followed by athletes of Nizami district sports school and Baku Gymnastics School.

The women's pairs competition ended with the victory of the gymnasts of Baku Gymnastics School, which representatives also took the third place. The acrobats from "Neftchi" won the silver medals.

In men’s pair belonging to 12-18 age group, the first and third places went to representatives of Baku Gymnastics School, while the second place went to athletes from the Nizami district sport school.

The arena will host women's artistic gymnastics on December 4, where representatives of the Olympic style competition will participate.

Girls representing Baku’s gymnastics school, “Netchi” and “Ojag Sport” born in 2003-2005, 2006-2007, 2008-2009, and 2008-2010 will compete in the all around.

Boys’ competitions will start on December 5. The athletes born in 1998-2000, 2001-2002, 2003-2004, 2005-2006 and 2007-2008 will compete for the title. All the competitions start at 12:00.