Baku, Azerbaijan, June 18
By Aygun Badalova - Trend:
The largest number of the First European Games spectators was observed on June 17, Simon Clegg, the Baku 2015 chief operating officer said.
"Yesterday we had the largest number of spectators since the opening ceremony, some 32,100 spectators attended 19 sessions at 10 different venues," Clegg said at the press conference on June 18.
The average attendance amounted to 87 percent, he said.
Clegg said that particularly good were the results of the national gymnastics arena where four disciplines of gymnastics took place.
Clegg said that he is incredibly satisfied with the progress that has been making, in particular, the tickets sales went incredibly well.
Archery, beach volleyball, boxing, shooting, road cycling, diving, artistic gymnastics, table tennis, taekwondo, volleyball, water polo and men's freestyle wrestling events will be held June 18.
On the seventh day of the European Games, the athletes will contend for 16 medal sets: two sets in archery, two - road cycling, two - diving, two - artistic gymnastics, two - shooting, two - taekwondo and four sets in freestyle wrestling.
Azerbaijani athletes will participate in all events to be held June 18, except for the archery.
The European Games that kicked off in Baku June 12, will last till June 28.
There is a total of 20 sports at Baku 2015: 16 Olympic sports and four non-Olympic sports. More than 6,000 athletes from across Europe will be representing their nations over 17 days of competition.
Baku was awarded the games by the European Olympic Committees (EOC) in December 2012.
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