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In the evening of September 9, the Ashgabat Kopetdag Stadium became the venue for pre-match test training for the football teams of Turkmenistan and the Republic of Korea, which the next day at the qualifying round meeting for the 2022 World Cup in Qatar, should find out who will...

On Tuesday evening, September 10, the Kopetdag Stadium of Ashgabat will host a game between the two national football teams (Turkmenistan and South Korea) as part of the second round of the Asian Qualifying Tournament for the 2022 World Cup in Qatar. The match starts at 19:00....

In September, the city of Pattaya, Thailand will host the 85th World Weightlifting Championships with the Turkmenistan national team taking part in the event. Our athletes are training intensely and rigorously for the World Championships, since our country’s qualification for the...

The bank of the Turkmen team was replenished with one silver and six bronze awards on the final day of the Sambo World Cup “Kharlampiev Memorial” in Moscow. The silver medal in sports sambo in the weight category up to 62 kg was awarded to Yusup Ismailov, who conceded to the r...

Aina BERDYYEVA

The International Weightlifting Federation (IWF) appreciated conditions created and technical support at the 2018 World Cup in Ashgabat. The modern equipment of the Olympic town of the Turkmen capital, production facilities and equipment made it possible to ma...

Aina BERDYYEVA

At the World Weightlifting Championships in Ashgabat, Emily Campbell from the United Kingdom won first place in the weight category +87 kg in group “C”. Only having gone from the platform, the champion from “foggy Albion” shared her first impressions of the perfo...

Viktor KARDASHOV

At the eighth day of the Ashgabat 2018 IWF World Championships, two sets of medals – in the Men’s 102 kg and in the Women’s 81 kg sections – were competed for. In addition, weightlifters in the Men’s +109 kg joined the competitions. The female weightlifters ...

Aina BERDYYEVA

World Weightlifting Championships in Ashgabat is nearing completion. During the eight days of the world championship, ORIENT correspondents talked with many weightlifters and coaches. We asked them, “Why is weightlifting cool?” Oleg Pisarevsky - coach of the Russ...

Altyn ASHIROVA

Spanish athlete Lydia Valentin once again proved her superiority in the world of weightlifting, becoming a three-time winner of the world championship in Ashgabat. In the sum of the biathlon, she lifted the unattainable 249 kg (113 kg in the snatch and 136 kg...

At 13:51 the competition among men in the weight category of 102 kg in group "B" ended. Despite the fact that all weightlifters, with the exception of the Lithuanian Arnas Sidiskis, successfully carried out the push from the first time, the failure pursued them in subsequent a...