Chief operating officer of the Baku European Games Operations Committee Simon Clegg has said that the showpiece is running "as well as we could have hoped and expected" after its first week.

The inaugural European Games in Azerbaijan has seen attendance of 74%, with the organisers having to increase spectator capacities for the diving preliminaries on Thursday.

"I think the first week has gone as well as we could have hoped and expected," said Clegg, according to the official Baku 2015 website.

"I think it is a wonderful reflection of the significant amount of planning that's been done over the last just 30 months that everything on the surface appears to be going smoothly.

"Of course you cannot organise an event of this scale without having some challenges and we face those challenges on a daily basis, but the sort of issues that we are facing are quite small and quite minor in the scale of things."

The Russian Federation currently lead the medals table, with Azerbaijan in second place and Hungary in third.