Turkmen athletes took the third team place at the world championship in belt wrestling, which was held in Astana (Kazakhstan) from 13 to 16 July. In total, wrestlers from 30 countries took part in the competition.

On Saturday, the grand finish ceremony of the Silk Road International Rally 2023 took place on Red Square in the very center of Moscow. She gathered several thousand fans at Vasilyevsky Descent, who came to congratulate the winners and prize-winners and to see the passage of sports cars through the finish arch.

At the 17th Asian Chess Championship among Schoolchildren held in Tashkent on July 15 and 16, the first four rounds of competitions with classical time regulations were held.

The 17th Asian Chess Championship among schoolchildren started on July 14 in Tashkent with a rapid tournament. On the first day of the competition, Turkmen participants of the championship in the under-17 category Lala Shohradova and Amanmuhammet Hommadov won silver and bronze medals, respectively.

The global partner of the Olympic Games, Airbnb, an online platform for accommodation and rental search, offers fans a unique opportunity to stay in the house where Pierre de Coubertin, the founder of the modern Olympic movement, spent his childhood.

The head of the Tennis Federation of Turkmenistan, Eziz Dovletov, is on a visit to London, where one of the oldest and most prestigious tennis tournaments is being held — Wimbledon (Wimbledon-2023). ORIENT was informed about this by the Tennis Federation of Turkmenistan.

From June 30 to July 10, in the town of Korumdu on the shore of Lake Issyk-Kul in Kyrgyzstan, the West Asian Chess Championship among boys and children aged 6 to 18 was held. Competitions were held in all three varieties of chess: with classical time control regulations, rapid (rapid chess) and blitz (lightning chess). In total, about 300 athletes from 9 countries took part in the championship.

Kurban Berdyev, the former coach of Rubin Kazan, was appointed head coach of Dynamo Makhachkala football club, which plays in the First League. This is reported on the team's page on the VKONTAKTE social network.

The Chess Championship of Turkmenistan among school teams, held for the first time in the country on July 8-9, summed up its results. The competitions organized by the National Chess Federation and the State Committee for Physical Culture and Sports were held at the Specialized Chess and Checkers School of the city of Ashgabat.

The kickboxing championship of Turkmenistan, organized by the State Committee for Physical Culture and Sports of the country in cooperation with the Federation of this sport of Turkmenistan, has started in Dashoguz.