Thanks to the victories of International Master Saparmyrat Atabayev and Grandmaster Meylis Annaberdiyev on the 1st and 2nd boards respectively, as well as a draw by Allayar Shirliev on the 4th board, the Turkmen national team defeated Iceland (seed number - 46; average rating - 2483) with the score 2.5 to 1.5 in the 8th round of the ongoing World Chess Olympiad in Budapest (Hungary).

On the seventh day of the 45th World Chess Olympiad, both the men's and women's national teams of Turkmenistan won important victories.

On 18 September 2024, the ceremony of donating special Taekwondo devices to the National Taekwondo Center of Turkmenistan from the Embassy of the Republic of Korea to Turkmenistan took place at the indoor Athletics Complex of Olympic Village in Ashgabat

The 6th round of the 45th World Chess Olympiad, which is taking place in Budapest, Hungary, ended yesterday, after which the women's team of Turkmenistan with 8 team points out of 12 possible is in first place in its category.

Portuguese footballer, striker and captain of the Saudi club Al-Nasr and the Portuguese national team Cristiano Ronaldo became the first person in the world to gain 1 billion subscribers on his social networks.

Turkmen athlete Annagurban Allaberdiyev won the gold medal at the 5th World Nomad Games, winning the alysh competition, a national belt wrestling event.

Alp Arslan Begenjov, 18, became the first athlete from Turkmenistan to win a gold medal at the World Youth Wrestling Championships U-20. The competition was held in Pontevedra, Spain.

The 44th General Assembly of the Olympic Council of Asia (OCA) is underway in New Delhi. As part of this assembly, elections were held for the leadership positions of the Organisation.

The Russian Football Union (RFU) has proposed a fellowship match between the national teams of Russia and Turkmenistan. The news was published today, 2 September, by soccer.ru, citing sport24.ru and Resul Mammedov, the head of the competitions department at the Football Federation of Turkmenistan,

The national futsal team of Turkmenistan will hold a training session in Dubai, UAE, from 3 to 13 September under the guidance of head coach Yakub Ovezov. For this training camp, the head coach has called up 18 players, three of whom are goalkeepers and the rest are field players.