European Athletics Team Championships Third League has finished in Tbilisi. They were trying to qualify for the second league. “Dinamo Arena” and a new stadium in Dighomi hosted the tournament. 15 teams participated in it. Cyprus and Iceland took the first-second place. They qualified for the second league. As for Georgia, it took the 7th place. Karel Pilny, delegate of European Athletics Federation, Peter Stafford, project consultant of European Athletics, and Aleksi Akhvlediani, president of the Georgian Athletics Federation, held a press conference for mass media.
Pilny: “I want to thank everybody who participated in this tournament. Individual championship is different from the team one. In individual tournament sportsman is fighting for personal interests. There are common interests in the team tournament. I want to thank the organizing committee and federation. There was only technical problem which, hopefully, will be improved in the future. I mean EYOF 2015 which will be hosted by Tbilisi”.
Stafford: “I agree with Mr. Pilny. Hopefully, this problem will be solved in EYOF”.
Akhvlediani: “We expected better result but finally, we took the 7th place. We expected more from Gogoladze and Ilariani. I want to thank mass media which broadcast the tournament during two days”.
Here are the results:
1 - Cyprus (495 points)
2 - Iceland (487)
3 - Israel (471.5)
4 - Moldova (446)
5 - Azerbaijan (363)
6 - Luxembourg (357)
7 - Georgia (334.5)
8 - Bosnia (323)
9 - Montenegro (278)
10 - Malta (258)
11 - Armenia (249.5)
12 - Albania (164)
13 - Macedonia (162.5)
14 – AASSE (San Marino, Gibraltar, Liechtenstein) (150)
15 - Andorra (126)
Roland Labuchidze
