Faid Gaibov, the president of European Gymnastics, has recently become the Sports Minister of Azerbaijan. In addition, he is one of the candidates for the FIG President position and is competing for it with the current president...
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Jessica Gadirova’s three medals at the European Championsips are making the news in Azerbaijan – the country where her parents are from. Haqqin.az talked to Jessica, her twin sister Jennifer (missing the competition...
Olga Barkalova started working as the head coach of the WAG national team in Azerbaijan this year. She was previously one of the coaches (and a de-facto head coach at times) of the Belorussian WAG team and part of the effort to...
Azerbaijan’s WAG experienced another coaching change this year. Polish Przemysław Lis who has been coaching in Baku for the past two years has been replaced by Olga Barkalova from Belarus. Barkalova has been a senior coach...
Azerbaijan’s Gymnastics Federation has announced that three of the gymnasts on their European Championships senior and junior MAG teams tested positive for Covid-19 this week. As a result, Azerbaijan withdrew from the...
The European Gymnastics Federation has decided to move the 2020 MAG and WAG European Championships to Mersin, Turkey. The men’s competition will take place from 9th to 13th of December, and the women’s competition...
The European Gymnastics Federation was supposed to make the final decision regarding the 2020 European Championships – whether they will take place. The competition was postponed until December due to the pandemic and the...
European Gymnastics has announced the new dates for both MAG and WAG 2020 European Championships. The competitions were originally supposed to be held at the end of April in Paris (for WAG) and at the end of May in Baku (for...
In 2013, when Azerbaijan started building its artistic gymnastics program, they managed to recruit quite a few gymnasts, mainly from Russia and Ukraine. Marina Nekrasova was not one of their top recruits on the women’s side...
Marina Nekrasova of Azerbaijan made headlines of the local press when she competed in a unitard at the Baku World Cup. Unitards are allowed by WAG Code of Points but I have never seen one until Nekrasova, even though they are...