Azerbaijan on Tuesday announced the dates and participating sports for the first European Games, which will be held in 2015 in the country's capital Baku.

The country's news agencies cited sports minister Azad Rahimov as saying at the news conference that the competition will be held from June 12-28 and include some 6,300 athletes and 19 events.

He said the disciplines will include archery, swimming, water polo, diving, track-and-field, badminton, basketball, boxing, canoe, cycling -- including BMX, mountain bikes and road bikes -- gymnastics, rhythmic gymnastics, judo, karate, shooting, trapshooting, table tennis, taekwondo, triathlon, beach and court volleyball, beach soccer, wrestling and fencing.

Rahimov said each of the EOC 49 member countries will participate in the competition.

Europe's national Olympic committees established the games last year as an analogue to the Asian and Pan-American Games. Baku was the only candidate to host them.

Go to Forum >>0 Comment(s)