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Thirty Countries Appeal to Attend World Boxing Championship in Baku

Society Materials 21 July 2007 12:30 (UTC +04:00)

Azerbaijan, Baku /corr. Trend Z.Safarov / The national collected teams from thirty countries submitted applications to attend world young boxing championship which will begin at the end of August in Baku.

The President of the National Federation, Agajan Abiyev, said that exactly this number of countries confirmed their participation in the championship. They include Cuba, Russia, USA, India, Korea, Australia, Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Great Britain, Germany, Egypt.

"For its scale, the forthcoming championship will overdo the contest of planet which took place in Baku several years ago when collected team from the USA could not come to Baku due to 11 September events," Abiyev said.

In addition, he stressed the applications for the participation in the championship will be accepted by 1 August.

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