Nowadays, in our country many significant steps are made in order to achieve a rapid development and popularization of sports. It should be noted with pride that an interest of teenagers and youth to that filed is increasing day by day and hence a lot of achievements in this field in our country. Regional and international sports contests are held at the highest level either in the capital Baku or in the regions of the country. The student athletes of Sumgait State University are also attending those competitions. They keep earning victories and thereby glorify the name of our university.
On April 6, Baku Engineering University hosted a sports contest dedicated to the “Day of Health and Happiness” which was realized on initiative of Embassy of Turkmenistan to Azerbaijan. That contest was organized among the high school students on five types of sports as follows: indoor football, table tennis and gymnastics (bar stuff and short sprint). The teams of 6 universities have joined that contest. They are from Sumgait State University, Azerbaijan State Oil and Industrial University, Baku High Oil School, Baku Engineering University, “Yashliq” team of  Turkmenistan and Azerbaijan State University of Architecture and Construction. 
The students of SSU have taken part in four types of sports. The results are mentioned below:
Table tennis: the first course student of the faculty of Engineering Emin Abdullayev, the first course student of faculty of Chemistry and Biology Nurlan Hasanov and the first course student of faculty of Economics and Management Nijat Huseynli, they all took the first place. 
Track and field athletics: the second course student of faculty of Chemistry and Biology Ilham Iksanov took the first place. The third course student of faculty of Physics and Electro energetic Khalil Salmanov took the third place.
Gymnastics (a parallel bar): the first course student of faculty of Chemistry and Biology Elnur Seferli took the third place.
The team of the university on indoor football took the forth place.  
The winners have been awarded with the cups and diplomas. It should be noted that indoor football team of our university has been awarded with a special diploma for being a most active team.   

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