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Sept 24 (Reuters) - European stocks slipped at the open on Friday on lingering worries about troubled property developer China Evergrande, with mining and retail stocks exposed to the Asian country among the biggest decliners.

The regionwide STOXX 600 index .STOXX slipped 0.5% after a three-day run of gains. Miners .SXPP , automakers .SXAP and retailers .SXRP fell more than 1% each.

Investors took some profits off the table after mid-week rally as a deadline for paying $83.5 million in bond interest passed without remark from Evergrande 3333.HK , concerns about which rocked financial markets earlier this week.

German sportswear makers Adidas ADSGn.DE and Puma PUMG.DE fell 3.7% and 2.5%, respectively, after Nike NKE.N cut its fiscal 2022 sales expectations and said it expects delays during the holiday shopping season, blaming the ongoing supply chain crunch.

Broadly, Germany's DAX .GDAXI fell 0.7%, heading into the weekend when the country will vote to elect German chancellor Angela Merkel's successor.

British drugmaker AstraZeneca AZN.L jumped 3.2% after the company said its cancer drug Lynparza met its primary goal in a late-stage trial.
Reporting by Sruthi Shankar in Bengaluru; Editing by Arun Koyyur