Bahrain has won a bid to host the World Weightlifting Championships in 2024. Along with Bahrain, Armenia and Albania were candidates for the championship.

26 medals — three gold, seven silver and 16 bronze — were won by Turkmen athletes at the Asian and Oceania Sambo Championship held in Astana from June 5 to 11. This was reported to the ORIENT correspondent in the State Committee for Physical Culture and Sports of the country.

On Sunday, the second tournament within the world championship among cadets, boys and girls, i.e. in the age categories from 8 to 18 years, ended in Batumi (Georgia). This tournament was held with the "blitz" regulations, i.e. the players were allocated 3 minutes with the addition of 2 seconds for each turn.

The national team of Turkmenistan will take part in the world championship in billiard sports, which will be held from June 12-17 in Surgut. This was reported to an ORIENT correspondent by the State Committee for Physical Culture and Sports of the country.

The youth national team of Turkmenistan will take part in the Asian Wrestling Championship, which starts on June 10 in Bishkek (Kyrgyzstan).

The ceremony of lighting the flame of the 2024 Olympic Games in Paris is to take place in the Greek Olympia on April 16 next year — 101 days before the opening ceremony of the competitions themselves in the French capital. This is reported by the Olympic news site Insidethegames.

The youth national team of Turkmenistan won silver medals for the first time in history at the Central Asian Tennis Championship (U-12), which ended in Ashgabat.

At the Rapid World Chess Championship, which ended on Thursday, June 8, in the Georgian city of Batumi, a schoolgirl from the Lebap region, Leyla Shohradova, finished in third place in the category of girls under 16. Having the title of a candidate for the FIDE master among women, Leila scored 8 points out of 11 possible, only a point behind the winner Alexandra Shvedova (Russia) and half a point behind the silver medalist Ksenia Norman (Belarus).

The national team of Turkmenistan beat the team of Uzbekistan in the fourth round of the Central Asian Championship among boys and girls under 12 years old, which started in Ashgabat on June 5.

Turkmen athletes will take part in the Grand Prix of the International Weightlifting Federation (IWF), starting on June 8 in Havana (Cuba).