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With the silver on the final day for BMX’er Twan van Gendt, the Netherlands, the European Games concluded today with 29 medals. It involved eight gold, twelve silver and nine bronze medals it should be noted that the organization in Baku in team medals, such as table tennis and gymnastics, each slice count. NOC * NSF kept the 23 medals.
More stick than expected
Two gold medals were won Saturday by the judokas Henk Grol and Marhinde Verkerk. The other winners of gold were swimmer Marrit Steenbergen, table tennis player Li Jiao, gymnast Lieke Wevers, bokster Nouchka Fontijn, cyclist Ellen Van Dijk and judoka Kim Polling.
The number of slices was far above the advance by Chef de Mission Jeroen Bijl stated objective, though he did not know exactly what to expect from the new event. Bijl took aim at least eight medals in five different sports. Netherlands closed off the medal standings in ninth.
“Athletes were there when it was
” The athletes have really done a fantastic job, “Axe said at the NIS.
“They were there when it was at a high level. In more than half of the sports there was a good field of participants. It is nice that there are results achieved in sports that normally have no priority at NOC * NSF. Think of table tennis, gymnastics and boxing. We had not counted on medals there. “
Axe praised the organization of the event in Azerbaijan. “It felt olympic here and that came through the organization, it was really a grand multi-event. For the athletes an extra moment to learn to deal with it “(Reuters)
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