Azerbaijan gymnasts return from world championships with three medals

Members of Azerbaijan’s national team have returned home after competing at the 39th World Championships in trampoline gymnastics and tumbling in Nanjing, China. The gymnasts finished the competition with one gold and two silver medals.

Azerbaijan’s tumbling team, comprising Mikhail Malkin, Tofiq Aliyev, Adil Hajizada and Aleksey Karatashov, won the world title for the third consecutive time. The four gymnasts took gold in the team event.

Seljan Mahsudova and Maqsud Mahsudov, who competed in the mixed synchronised trampoline event, won silver at the World Championships for the first time. Tofiq Aliyev also claimed his first individual World Championships medal, taking silver in the tumbling individual event.

Family members, media representatives and federation officials welcomed the medalists at the airport. The tumbling team, which won gold in Nanjing, and the gymnasts who earned silver in the mixed synchronised and individual events have now returned to Azerbaijan.