Poland holds closing ceremony for III European Games PHOTO

A closing ceremony of the III European Games has taken place in Krakow, Poland.

Report's correspondent informs from the Henryk Reyman Stadium that Mahammad Abdullayev, European Games silver medallist in boxing, who has been awarded a participation license for the Paris 2024 Summer Olympic Games, was the standard-bearer of the Azerbaijani delegation.

Azerbaijan claimed 101 athletes in 14 sports.

Our athletes won 11 (3-2-6) awards.

The champions were karate fighters Tural Agalarzade (67 kg), Irina Zaretska (68 kg), and kickboxer Farid Agamoglanov (full contact, 63.5 kg). ) Taekwondist Sayad Dadashov (54 kg) and boxer Mahammad Abdullayev (+92kg) grabbed silver. Third places went to karate fighter Asiman Gurbanly (+84kg), taekwondist Hashim Mahammadov (68 kg), muay thai masters Aysu Davrishova (57 kg), Emily Rzayeva (63.5kg), Khayal Aliyev (67 kg) and boxer Murad Allakhverdiyev (80 kg).

Azerbaijan ranked 24th among 41 countries.

Italy (35-26-39) took first place in the medal table, ahead of Spain (21-17-19) and Ukraine (21-12-8).

Azerbaijan was the second at I EuroGames 2015 in Baku, and the tenth at II EuroGames 2019 in Minsk.