AZERBAIJAN CYCLING
FEDERATION

The 7th Olympic Sport School

School's Activity and success in sport

The 7th Olympic Reserved and specialized Youth Sport School has been established in 1969. The cyclists who attend the school get their trainings regularly either in indoor sports area of the school number 29 in Ahmadli, at the National Velodrome or on non-traffic roads.

The 7th Olympic Reserve and specialized Youth Sport School has 3 sport sections running different trainings for, such as boxing, fencing and cycling. The school's cyclists, the multiple Olympic and World champions, whose names are Ilqar Mammadov and Boris Koretskiy have also been champions for the fencing during Seoul Olympic Championship. the schools another trainee is Salman Alizade, who has been gold medallist of both European and the World championships in 2008.

Head coach Abulfaz Mammadov and the national team before the race in Dinette city of Belgium

Viewing to the recent success story of the school we are proud to tell about these guys - Elgun Alizade and Nijat Niftaliyev, winner of the 2nd place in Konya, Turkey. Nijat has also extended his triumph until the European Tournament in 2012 in Netherlands finishing the race with bronze. Further to the success story of Elgun and Nijat it is significant to note these guys have also boomed with their victories in Anapa, Russia sharing the 5th and 6th at the juniors race. In 2012 Elgun Alizade finished 4th, during race held in honour of the Moldovan President in Kishinev, Moldova. Besides that, Elgun Alizade is still the one having the best result in the history of Azerbaijan's cycling since his 11th place in the group road race in the European Championship

The Coaches

At the moment there are three experienced coaches working for the school. Abulfaz Mammadov, the head coach of the National Team for the juniors and U17 categories, has for a long time been working with young cyclists. The other two coaches, Michael Jutkin, the honoured cyclist of the post soviet and Anvar Azizov, the SSR master of cycling sport, are also dedicated coaches among others.

Neman Gasimov is the principal of the school.