Allayar Shirliyev, a 21-year-old conscript soldier, and Meryem Agajanova, a 17-year-old Ashgabat high school student, became champions of Turkmenistan for the first time in their chess career.

Qatar will host the next five FIFA U-17 World Cups starting in 2025, FIFA said on Thursday.

Young professionals working in institutions supervised by the Turkmenaragatnashyk agency participate in the national sports competition.

The Turkmen capital hosted the city championship in strict bicep lifting with a barbell. This was reported to the ORIENT correspondent by representatives of the Athletic Sports Federation of Turkmenistan.

The Turkmenistan national ice hockey team won its first victory at the World Championship in Bishkek.

Preparations for the next Future Games, scheduled for 2025, have begun in Kazakhstan.

National teams of Turkmenistan, Thailand, Kyrgyzstan, South Africa, Mexico and Luxembourg gathered in the capital of Kyrgyzstan to participate in the World Hockey Championship in the third division of Group A. The Kyrgyz Ice Hockey Federation reports this.

Turkmen athletes won 19 gold, 9 silver and 6 bronze medals at the International Taekwondo Tournament (ITF) that ended in Kuala Lumpur (Malaysia).

Deputy Prime Minister of the Russian Federation Dmitry Chernyshenko, together with head of the Republic of Tatarstan Rustam Minnikhanov, took part in the closing ceremony of the multi-sport tournament “Future Games”. It took place in Kazan in a unique format of a physical concert that brought together artists and digital performers. Movable programmable screens and projection surfaces have once again blurred the line between the real and virtual worlds.

The international hockey tournament starts in Ashgabat in two weeks, on April 15. The competition will be held in the capital's Winter Sports Complex until April 20.