Araz News: Azerbaijan’s volleyball team gained a victory over the Dutch team at the First European Games in Baku and advanced to the semifinals June 23.

The Azerbaijani team took the lead in all three sets – 25:21, 25:23, 25:14.

The European Games that kicked off 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 came to Baku to represent their nations over 17 days of competition. Baku was awarded the games by the European Olympic Committees (EOC) in December 2012.

Reprinted from trend.az