French gymnast Kseniya Moustafaeva, a bronze medallist at the 2013 Mediterranean Games, is joined by Denmark's Beijing 2008 silver medal winning canoeist René Holten Poulsen and Serbian 3x3 basketball layers Dušan Domović Bulut, Marko Savic, Marko Zdero and Dejan Majstorovic.

The group, all expected to compete at the inaugural European Games, will feature in marketing campaigns around the continent over the next six months before the event is due to open on June 12.

More ambassadors are also set to be unveiled over coming months, it has been promised.

"The ambassador programme will see support for the inaugural European Games from high profile athletes from around Europe as well as Azerbaijani medal hopefuls, so we are confident it will be a success," said Baku 2015 chief operating officer Simon Clegg.

"I would like to congratulate the first of our international athlete ambassadors that have been selected and we are very much looking forward to working with them and the remaining ambassadors who will be announced over the coming months to help promote Baku 2015."

Denmark's reigning world champion canoeist René Holten Poulsen is among the six ambassadors ©AFP/Getty Images



Today's announcement follows the unveiling of 11 Azerbaijani ambassadors last month, including two-time Olympic medal winning wrestlers Rovshan Bayramov and Mariya Stadnik.

Moustafaeva, the 19-year-old French star of Belarusian origin, expressed her excitement ahead of competing in a gymnastics competition featuring acrobatic and aerobic as well as artistic, rhythmic and trampolining competitions.