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Baku 2015 hosts wrestling demonstration

30 October 2014 [13:40] - TODAY.AZ

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By Nigar Orujova

Baku 2015 European Games has hosted a Wrestling demonstration at the organization's headquarters with six members of Azerbaijan's national cadet team.

The powerful athletes showed off their ability and technique to more than 500 members of staff in a series of exhibition matches.

Chief Operating Officer of Baku 2015 Simon Clegg said: "We are very grateful to everyone from the Azerbaijan Wrestling Federation for taking time out of their busy schedule to show our staff what they are capable of."

Wrestling will be a hugely popular event at next year's inaugural European Games, so it was an honor to have some of Azerbaijan's best young athletes here in our headquarters, he added.

The wrestlers were joined by General Secretary of the Azerbaijan Wrestling Federation Ajdar Jafarov who helped explain the demonstration.

Jafarov said: "Our young athletes enjoyed the opportunity to show their talents to members of the Baku 2015 team. We are very much looking forward to representing our nation next year at Baku 2015 and we are all hopeful of making all of Azerbaijan proud when the Games begin."

The cadet wrestlers who participated were Sabutay Amishov and Fizuli Huseynov (Freestyle), Ismayil Mammadov and Parvin Abdullayev (Greco-Roman), and female wrestlers Sahila Ocaqverdiyeva and Adelina Mirzayeva.

Wrestling will take place over six days of competition in the Heydar Aliyev Arena at next year's European Games, with approximately 480 athletes competing for the 24 gold medals available.

Overall, the first European games will gather more than 6,000 athletes to compete over the 17 days of competition.

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