Europen Games Baku, Azerbaijan

Sword deployed a team of 50 managers and crowd safety consultants for over a month to the 1^st European Games in Baku, Our team worked alongside the Organizing Committee, Local Police and Volunteers to help deliver Europe’s first official multi-sport Games. There were four clusters and 18 competition venues for the inaugural European Games, including 12 that were designed to become permanent venues. Five of the venues were new-builds: the National Gymnastics Arena, BMX Velopark, Baku Aquatics Centre, Baku Shooting Centre and National Stadium. There were six temporary venues: Water Polo Arena, Beach Arena, Basketball Arena, Mountain Bike Velopark, Triathlon, Cycling road race and time trial. A total of 20 sports were represented: 16 Olympic sports, two Olympic sports contested only in non-Olympic formats (basketball and football) and two non-Olympic sports (karate and sambo) and the games committee attributed most of the successful security operations of the games to Sword Security’s management team.