On September 19, 2017 The Olympic Council of Asia held their 70th Executive Board meeting at the Olympia Hotel in Ashgabat. The OCA President, Sheikh Ahmad Al Fahad Al Sabah, welcomed the members to the capital city of Turkmenistan on the occasion of the 5th Asian Indoor and Martial Arts Games and ahead of the OCA General Assembly meeting which took place on 20th of September. “I am honoured to be here with the sports family from Asia and Oceania, the International Olympic Committee, Inter...

It was another big day of competition on Tuesday at the Ashgabat 2017 5th Asian Indoor and Martial Arts Games, with 11 sports on the daily docket and medal events contested in half of those events – Belt Wrestling, Indoor Athletics, Ju Jitsu, Taekwondo, Track Cycling and Weightlifting. Three events – Belt Wrestling, 3x3 Basketball, and Billard Sport – made their Ashgabat 2017 Games debut.  Preliminary round action was ongoing in 3x3 Basketball, Billiard Sports, Futsal, Indoor Tennis, and Muay...

Competitions in the Turkmen national wrestling (goresh), held on September 18 at the 5th Asian Indoor and Martial Arts Games have already ended. They became a triumph of the National Team of Turkmenistan; our athletes won 23 gold, 14 silver and 9 bronze medals. This success is the result of years of tireless training, and abundant experience in their native sport. Overcoming the limits of their capabilities, the medal winners in the national Turkmen wrestling have traversed a difficult path t...

Our women won medals of all kinds in the final day of jujitsu competitions. Contest for the awards in Ne-wasa discipline has been held today. Women final in weight category above 70 kg was entirely between Turkmen wrestlers. Aysoltan Garchovova took over her teammate Sabina Agajanova who became silver medal winner. Other two our girl in this competitions won the bronze: Ulyana Nazarova in weight category up to 49 kg and Dinara Jumadurdiyeva in weight category up to 45 kg. Thus, Turkmen...

Among the many foreign guests who are now staying in the Turkmen capital, there are world-renowned sports stars, including sports idols for many generations such as the legendary hockey players Vladislav Tretiak and the famed figure skater Irina Rodnina.  Now, they are well-known public figures, promoters and ambassadors of sport, who carry out their diplomatic mission in various countries. V. Tretiak and I. Rodnina have found a big number of sincere friends and fans in Turkmenistan. Along wi...

On September 19, 2017 at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs there was the meeting with Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Dominican Republic to India Mr. Frank Hans Dannenberg Castellanos who arrived in Turkmenistan to participate in the opening ceremony of the 5th Asian Indoor and Martial Arts Games. Expressing sincere gratitude for the warm hospitality, the guest stressed that the Dominican Republic highly appreciates the policy of neutrality and good neighborliness pursued by...

On September 19, 2017 in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Turkmenistan there was a meeting of the Chairman of the State Committee for Sports of Turkmenistan T. Komekov with the Japanese delegation led by the President of the Organizing Committee for the preparation of the Summer Olympic Games Tokyo 2020, the head of the Parliamentary Association of the Japanese-Turkmen Friendship of the Parliament of Japan Endo Toshiaki, who arrived in Ashgabat to take part in the Fifth Asian Indoor and Martia...