SPORTSMEN EXPELLED FROM TEAM

09.02.2004 [16:11]
Despite the fact the Ministry of Sports of France, seriously combats against use of dopes by the sportsmen at the upcoming Athens Olympiad, the facts of use of these prohibited ...

GYMNASTS FIRST GAMES IN CURRENT YEAR

09.02.2004 [14:10]
Baku Calisthenics Championship with the participation of 90 gymnasts will be held at the Olympic Sports Complex, on February 10-12.
Contest is the preparation to Baku Championship planned for March, ...

WINNER TO RECEIVE OLYMPIC LICENSES

09.02.2004 [14:09]
Only 10 teams in full staff from 42, including Azerbaijan, Russia, Croatia, France, Hungary, Italy, Poland, Romania, Turkey and the Wales will attend the European Boxing Championship to be held ...

LICENSES TO GO TO PRIZE-WINNERS ONLY

07.02.2004 [18:58]
Only 10 national teams out of 42 registered will delegate their best athletes to the European Boxing Championship to be held in Croatia February 19-29. Only teams of Azerbaijan, Russia, ...

ADIDAS TO PRODUCE SPORTSWEAR FOR AZERBAIJANI ATHLETES

07.02.2004 [18:57]
The agreement on sportswear production for Azerbaijani Olympians has been sealed between the Youth, Sports and Tourism Ministry of Azerbaijan and Adidas’s Moscow office. In contrast to the Sidney sportswear, ...

REPUBLICAN CONTEST WINNERS AWARDED

07.02.2004 [15:51]
Awards presentation ceremony for the nominations “Best sports and chess school”, “Best trainer-teacher” and “Best athlete” of the year has been conducted in the Ministry of Education.
Speaking at the ...

SPORTSMEN-WINNERS AWARDED PRIZES

06.02.2004 [14:36]
On the occasion of the 10th anniversary of founding Azerbaijan Association of Trade Unions’ Sport Organizations, a ceremony of awarding the winners of the 1st republican sports and athletics meeting ...

YOUNG CHESS CHAMPIONS KNOWN

05.02.2004 [22:13]
The Chess Championship of Azerbaijan among under-18 and 20 aged juniors and girls is to complete shortly. Following 9 legs Nijat Mammadov became champion among under-20 juniors, Shahriyar Hasanov ranked ...

EGLE ABRUZINI: “BAKU WILL RECEIVE BEST GYMNASTS OF WORLD”

05.02.2004 [20:23]
President of the Technical Committee for Calisthenics of the International Gymnastics Federation
(FIG) Egle Abruzine made special address at the headquarters of this organization in Geneva related to the upcoming ...

“AZERRAYL” REACHES NEXT ROUND OF CHAMPIONS LEAGUE

05.02.2004 [13:40]
In the final game of the women’s volleyball Champions League qualification tournament, “Azerrayl” Baku fought against Spanish “Otel Kantur” at the Baku Sports Complex, on February 4.
From the very ...

EUROPEAN BOXING CHAMPIONSHIP DUE IN CROATIA

05.02.2004 [13:35]
European Boxing Championship starts on February 17 in Pula, Croatia. Azerbaijan will be represented by 10 boxers at this tournament, according to the reports of the Youth, Sports and Tourism ...

“AZERREYL” WON ANOTHER GAME IN CHAMPIONS LEAGUE

04.02.2004 [12:01]
“Azerreyl” has hosted Slovenian “Noyva KBM Branik” on February 3 in the Women’s Volleyball Champions League. The first game ended with an emphatic 3:0 victory of Azerbaijani volleyball players.
From ...

AFFA’s CURRENCY ACCOUNTS TO BE RETURNED TO AZERBAIJAN

03.02.2004 [12:27]
President of the Association of Football Federations of Azerbaijan Ramiz Mirzoyev has returned from Switzerland, where they visited UEFA office and one of the Geneva banks to talk with UEFA ...

LIST OF TOP 20 GYMNASTS ANNOUNCED

03.02.2004 [12:20]
The Federation of International Gymnastics /FIG/ has published a January rating-list of the Artistic Gymnast. According to the world classification, Azerbaijani gymnast Dinara Gimatova ranks 12 with 33.60 points. She ...

NATIONAL TEAM WINS TWO MORE LICENSES

02.02.2004 [23:07]
Namig Abdullayev, 66 kg and Rustam Agayev, 96 kg ranked 3rd and 4th respectively at the pre-Olympic qualification “Super A” category freestyle-wrestling tournament held in Bratislava from January 31 to ...

AZERBAIJAN ATHLETE ATTENDS INTERNATIONAL CONTESTS

31.01.2004 [21:22]
Azerbaijan athlete Alibay Shukurov taking part at the distance of 800 m will attend the international track and field athletics contest “Russkaya zima-2004”, to start in Moscow, on February ...

NEW AFFA MANAGEMENT ATTRACTS FOREIGN SPECIALISTS

31.01.2004 [14:29]
World champion Carlos Alberto Torres keeps on leaning of the sport complexes and stadiums of Azerbaijan and possibilities for football development. Being accompanied by AFFA vice-president Rauf Aliyev, the famous ...

TRADITIONS OF GROUP EXERCISES IN ARTISTIC GYMNASTICS TO BE RESTORED

29.01.2004 [15:13]
The traditions of group exercises in the Artistic Gymnastics will be restored in Azerbaijan. It was said by trainers of the Artistic Gymnastics national team of Russia Inna Bistrova and ...

FORMER VICE-PRESIDENT OF INTERNATIONAL OLYMPIC COMMITTEE ARRESTED

28.01.2004 [20:41]
Former Vice-President of the International Olympic Committee (IOC) Kim Un Yen was arrested in Seoul, capital of the South Korea. He is accused in bribery and finance machination. He will ...