{"id":35373,"date":"2026-06-18T08:44:58","date_gmt":"2026-06-18T04:44:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.neftchi.org\/?p=35373"},"modified":"2026-06-25T08:45:42","modified_gmt":"2026-06-25T04:45:42","slug":"first-national-para-swimming-championship-held-in-azerbaijan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.neftchi.org\/en\/first-national-para-swimming-championship-held-in-azerbaijan\/","title":{"rendered":"First National Para Swimming Championship Held in Azerbaijan"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The first-ever National Para Swimming Championship was held in Azerbaijan, organized by the National Paralympic Committee with the support of the Ministry of Youth and Sports.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The competition took place at the Sumgayit Paralympic Sports Complex, bringing together nearly 30 junior and youth para swimmers who competed across nine different categories.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The primary objective of the championship was to encourage the participation of persons with disabilities in sports, support the development of their athletic skills, identify promising para swimmers who could represent Azerbaijan in future international competitions, and contribute to the formation of a reserve pool for the national para swimming team.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Representing NEFTCHI Sports Club, K\u00f6n\u00fcl S\u00fcleymanova, who competed in the S4 category, won a silver medal in the 50-meter freestyle event, recording a time of 1 minute 48 seconds.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It should be noted that the championship plays an important role in the development of para swimming in Azerbaijan, enhancing athletes\u2019 competitive experience, and identifying potential candidates for the national team.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The first-ever National Para Swimming Championship was held in Azerbaijan, organized by the National Paralympic Committee with the support of the Ministry of Youth and Sports. The competition took place at the Sumgayit Paralympic Sports Complex, bringing together nearly 30 junior and youth para swimmers who competed across nine different categories. The primary objective of&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":35374,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[127],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35373","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-paraswimmer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.neftchi.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35373","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.neftchi.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.neftchi.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.neftchi.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.neftchi.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35373"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.neftchi.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35373\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35376,"href":"https:\/\/www.neftchi.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35373\/revisions\/35376"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.neftchi.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35374"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.neftchi.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35373"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.neftchi.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35373"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.neftchi.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35373"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}