Ilham Aliyev Appoints Additional Premium for Olympic Medal Winners

Ilham Aliyev as President of the National Olympic Committee of the Republic of Azerbaijan signed a decree "On establishment of awards for the athletes of the Azerbaijan Republic and their coaches for the highest results at the XXXI Summer Olympic Games held in the city of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil" .

In particular, it sets the size of awards for the athletes of the Azerbaijan Republic and their coaches for the highest results at the XXXI Summer Olympics in the following order:

- Each athlete, who finished in the first place, - 200 thousand manats, and his coach - AZN 100 thousand;

- Each athlete, who was the second, - 100 thousand manats, and his coach - 50 thousand manats;

- Each athlete, who finished in the third place - 50,000 manats, and his coach - 25 thousand manats.

In total, at the Games in Rio de Janeiro Azerbaijani athletes won 18 medals, including 1 gold, 7 silver and 10 bronze medals.

Thus, the NOC is to pay 1.4 million manats as award to the athletes and 700 thousand manats to the coaches.

Previously, by the order of the head of state on July 18, for the owners of Olympic gold medals an award was established in 400 thousand manats, and their coaches were supposed to receive 200 thousand AZN.

For the silver medal the prize was 200 thousand manats for the athlete and AZN 100 thousand for the coach.

For the bronze medal it was 100 thousand AZN and 50 thousand AZN, respectively.

The total amount of premium for 18 athletes and coaches set by the head of state was 4.2 million manats (2.8 million AZN for the athletes and 1.4 million AZN for the coaches).

Of the 18 Azerbaijani winners of the Games, 11 were legionaries. -03B06--