Azerbaijani gymnast claims bronze at European Championships

Azerbaijani gymnast Dmitriy Fedorovskiy has won the bronze medal at the 25th European Championships in Trampoline Gymnastics, Tumbling and Double-mini Trampoline held in Valladolid, Spain.

Fedorovskiy secured the medal in the Double-mini Trampoline competitions with 74.100 points.

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

According to the results of the qualifications, representatives of Azerbaijan in Trampoline Gymnastics succeeded to reach the finals for the first time with a participation of best 8 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, Oleg, together 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.

At the end of the closing ceremony, the flag of the European Union of Gymnastics (UEG) was handed over to Azerbaijan as the next - 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.

/By Azertac/