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The 39th Trampoline and Tumbling World Championships will begin on Nov. 4 in Nanjing, China. Azerbaijan will be represented in tumbling by Mikhail Malkin, Tofiq Aliyev, Adil Hajizada and Alexei Karatashov.
Azerbaijan’s team won the team events in Birmingham in 2023 and Pamplona in 2025. Malkin, Aliyev and Hajizada were part of both championship-winning teams. In individual competition, Malkin became world champion in 2023 and won silver in Baku in 2021.
Azerbaijan’s medal targets
Malkin recently performed a “Miller” and “full” rotation combination in competition for the first time at the World Cup in Coimbra, winning gold. He also finished first in the World Cup overall standings. Tofiq Aliyev took bronze at the same event.
In trampoline, Seljan Mahsudova and Maqsud Mahsudov won bronze in mixed synchronised trampoline at the 2025 World Championships. Seljan finished fifth in the individual event at the championships. In October, she won gold in the individual and mixed synchronised events with her brother in Cottbus. The Mahsudovs won the World Cup overall title.
Individual qualification rounds will be held on Nov. 5. On Nov. 6, Maqsud Mahsudov and Huseyn Abbasov will compete in the men’s synchronised event. The pair finished first in the World Cup overall standings. The championships will conclude on Nov. 8.
