Altyn ASHIROVA

On October 28, the Ashgabat Sport Hotel hosted meetings of the medical, technical, coaching and performing committees of the 2018 World Championships in weightlifting, which will begin this Thursday. At the meetings, representatives of the International Weigh

Ashgabat International Airport – the largest air transport hub in Central Asia – is completely ready to meet the participants and guests of the 2018 IWF World Championships to be held in the capital of Turkmenistan on October 28 – November 10, 2018. Delegations from different cou...

The Russian men’s team will do its best at the World Weightlifting Championships in Ashgabat, said Oleg Pisarevsky, head coach of the team. According to him, four to five athletes are aimed to be among prize-winners. The coach’s optimism is based on the fact that most athletes ha

The official website of the 2018 World Weightlifting Championship that will be held in Ashgabat on October 28 – November 10, 2018 is available at ashgabat2018.com. ORIENT readers can visit the site any time by clicking on the banner at the very top of our main page. The websit

The World Championships in weightlifting, which will be held in the Turkmen capital from October 28 to November 10, will bring together one and a half thousand participants from hundreds of states on our planet. Among all the participating countries in the quantitative ratio o...

Tatyana YEVDOKIMOVA

The Final Entry List for the 2018 IWF World Championships to be held in Ashgabat on November 1-10, 2018, has been published on IWF website. The Men’s team of Turkmenistan includes following athletes; gold medalist of the 2016 Turkmenistan Junior Championship...

Altyn ASHIROVA

Kazakhstan athlete Nadezhda Likhacheva, competing in the weight category up to 69 kg, claims the 2018 World Cup weightlifting medals, which will be held in Ashgabat from November 1 to 10. At the 2018 Kazakhstan Cup, Likhacheva won the first place, performing

22-year-old Indian weightlifter Gurdeep Singh from the city of Khanna has qualified for the World Weightlifting Cchampionship-2018, which starts in November in Ashgabat, the Times of India writes. Gurdeep will perform in the weight category +109 kg and is determined to establi...

Four athletes from the USA under the leadership of his coach Travis Mash - Hunter Elam, Nathan Damron, Meredith Alwine and Jordan Cantrell - will travel to Ashgabat next month for the World Weightlifting Championship, writes Winston-Salem Journal. The quartet of athletes train...

On October 10, President Berdimuhamedov visited the Olympic village where he inspected the readiness of its objects to coming World Weightlifting Championships, which to be open in Ashgabat in less than three weeks. No wonder that the Turkmen leader started the inspection from