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Azerbaijan women’s 3x3 basketball team name squad for Baku 2017

27 April 2017 [16:45] - TODAY.AZ

The Azerbaijani women’s national 3x3 basketball team has named a squad for the Baku 2017 4th Islamic Solidarity Games.

The team includes Dina Ulyanova, Tatyana Deniskina, Abigail Mollenhauer and Marcedes Walker.

Azerbaijan will struggle against Turkey, Algeria, Mali and Afghanistan in Group A.

The Baku 2017 Islamic Solidarity Games is an exciting multi-sport event uniting the Islamic world, which will take place from 12 – 22 May 2017.

Athletes from Islamic countries around the world will be representing their nations over 10 days of competition across 20 different sports which include 23 disciplines (Athletics and Para Athletics, Aquatics – Diving, Aquatics – Swimming, Aquatics – Water Polo, Basketball 3x3, Football, Gymnastics – Artistic, Gymnastics – Rhythmic, Wushu, Table Tennis, Handball, Judo and Blind Judo, Wrestling – Greco, Wrestling – Freestyle, Shooting, Tennis, Volleyball, Boxing, Zurkhaneh, Karate, Taekwondo and Weightlifting) in 16 modern competition venues in Baku.

Azerbaijan’s capital city Baku was awarded the Games at the General Assembly of the Islamic Solidarity Sports Federation (ISSF) in Jeddah in July 2013.

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