The symbol of the coming large international competitions in Ashgabat was hoisted at the highest mountain crests of Turkmenistan and places of interest of every velayat of the country under the Ascent Project, which was organized by the State News Agency (TDH) and the Executive Committee for preparation of V Asian Indoor and Martial Arts Games.

The Executive Committee for preparation of the 5th Asian Indoor and Martial Arts Games was informed about this. In the Ashgabat Asian Games, a refugee guide will be a delegation head Tegla Lurup – the Olympic champion of Kenya, who is also the Ambassador for the UN project “Sport and Peace”.

Now the national boxing team of Turkmenistan is headed by famous Russian coach, honoured master of sports, an Olympic champion, world and European champion Alexander Borisovich Lebzyak. He officially started to train the national team three and a half month back. But for this short period his trainees, participating in the international tournaments, had time to win seven awards.

With a silver and two bronze medals our sambo wrestlers who performed in Ulyanovsk (Russian Federation) at the Festival of National Sports and Games of CIS countries, returned home.

Nine medals - such is the result of performance of our national team in the youth kurash championship of Asia held in Iran. For the superiority of the Asian part of the continent 110 best wrestlers from 11 countries gathered. Nevertheless, Turkmen athletes, having shown a great skill, won gold, silver and seven bronze medals. In addition - the third total team place among such strong countries in martial arts as the Republic of Korea, Taiwan, India, Vietnam, Iran, Iraq, Lebanon and others.

Our sportsmen won 7 gold, 13 silver and 19 bronze medals at Asian Sport and Combat Sambo Championship in the capital of Uzbekistan.

Eleven medals - two gold, three silver and six bronze medals were gained by Turkmen sportsmen during the Asian sambo and combat sambo championships which pass these days in the capital of Uzbekistan - Tashkent.

Turkmen athletes have won three prizes including one silver and two bronze medals during the international track-and-field tournament held recently in Almaty (Kazakhstan). Our compatriots were successful in the hammer throwing and 4x400 meter relay.

3 gold and 2 silver medals were secured in the U10 juniors group by the Turkmen athlete, Dominica Reimer, during the 14th International Artistic Gymnastics Tournament, Singapore Open, that had gathered about 100 participants from over 20 countries.

The National Boxing Championship started in Ashgabat that has brought together about 120 participants from all regions. The world-famous boxer Konstantin Tszyu came to our capital at the invitation of the National Boxing Federation to address the Turkmen boxers: “If the athlete has set a goal, he must make maximum efforts towards achieving it, K. Tszyu says, and the goal should be to gain maximum - no less than a victory in the championship of the planet”.