Azerbaijani Gymnastics Federation receives European Union of Gymnastics flag

/By Azernews/

By Amina Nazarli

The 25th European Championships in Trampoline Gymnastics, Tumbling and Double-mini Trampoline took place in Spanish Valladolid city on March 31 - April 3.

Azerbaijan was represented at the competitions in Trampoline Gymnastics by Ilya Grishunin, Oleg Piunov, Ruslan Aghamirov, Dmitriy Fedorovskiy and Sabina Zaitseva, and in Tumbling events by Mikhail Malkin and in Double-mini Trampoline by Dmitriy Fedorovskiy.

The country’s debut at the Double-mini Trampoline competitions has brought a bronze to the country. Scoring 74.100 points from the judges, Dmitriy Fedorovskiy took the 3rd place. The Russian athletes shared the 1st and 2nd places between themselves.

In the qualifications, representatives of Azerbaijan in Trampoline Gymnastics succeeded to reach the finals for the first time with a participation of best eight gymnasts of Europe both in the individual and synchronized competitions among men.

Eventually, Oleg Piunov took the 5th place in the individual program, having shown his best result 57.525. Within a synchro pair, Olegtogether with Ilya Grishunin ranked 7th.

Mikhail Malkin reached the final of the European Championships’ events in tumbling for the first time, where he closed up the eight of finalists.

The ceremony ended with the delivery of the flag of the European Union of Gymnastics (UEG) to Azerbaijan, as the 26th European Championships in Trampoline Gymnastics will be held in Baku in 2018.

The UEG flag was presented to the Secretary General of Azerbaijan Gymnastics Federation, Farid Gayibov, acted as the President of the Appeal Jury of the current Championships within the framework of his authorities as the UEG Vice-president.

Although the development of Trampoline Gymnastics in Azerbaijan commenced since the end of 2013, the country has already successfully organized the World Cup in this gymnastics discipline in Baku on March 5-6 this year.

The national trampoline gymnastics team made a breakthrough in autumn 2014, where for the first time in the history of independent Azerbaijan, Oleg Piunov and Ilya Grishunin became prizewinners of the World Cup in Portugal performing in synchronized pairing.