Last year, our athletes won 2113 medals in international competitions.
“Elchi” reports that Elnur Mammadov, Head of the Sports Department of the Ministry of Youth and Sports, said this at a meeting held by the Youth and Sports Committee of the Milli Majlis with the Ministry of Youth and Sports, the National Olympic Committee, and sports federations.
He stated that of these medals, 1443 were from Olympic and 589 from non-Olympic games: “Last year, 71 international and 1776 local competitions were held in Azerbaijan. In the liberated territories, 36 competitions were held. Another one of our successes is that our athletes took 2nd place in the CIS Games held in Azerbaijan last year, surpassing Belarus and Uzbekistan. All of those athletes were local. This means that the federations are operating correctly in this direction.”