The contest will start in Portuguese Montemor-o-Vellier on September 10. Azerbaijan will be represented by Alexander Alexandrov and duet of Javid Efendiyev and Igor Khmara.
All the three sportsmen have already shown high results. Thus, for example, Efendiyev and Khmara took the sixth place in the July world championship in Belarus. After successful participation they held training series in high mountain resort area of Bulgaria-Bilmiken and Plovdiv.
On September 6 our team left for Portugal where head coach Rudiger Hauffe and his assistants Juliana Stojeva and Sergey Prodan will hold the last stage of preparations for contests.
The European championship will involve 618 sportsmen from 34 countries. The contests will end on September 12.
Elmir Aliyev
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