As a result of the qualifying stage of the World Trampoline Championship, first held in Baku, the only pair of Azerbaijani synchronized acrobats – Svetlana Mashktarova and Sabina Zaitseva – got to the finals in fourth place with 81.7 points.
Only the couples from Ukraine (Moskvina and Kiyko, 86.4 points), Belarus (Garchonak and Pyatrenya, 82.8 points) and Bulgaria (Lawn and Badyhina, 82.5 points) were better then the Azerbaijani athletes.
Pairs from the USA (Johnson and Asindzher, 81.6 points), Spain (Santiago Beato and Masfret, 81.6 points), Russia (Pavlov and Voronin, 53.7 points) and Germany (and Adam Mueller, 49.3 points) also passed through to the finals.
