The ceremony of awarding medallists and winners in the Women’s Premier League Chess Championship of Turkmenistan took place at the specialised chess and checkers school in Ashgabat. Chess players also competed for medals in the blitz (rapid chess) tournament of the Chess Championship of Turkmenistan

Competitions in five national sports, including chekshme, duzzum, gyzyl tayak, sapanagty and halkan atmak as well as darts, a British game of accuracy took place at the Cheshme recreation and health promotion centre in Geokdere.

Sport Dancing Championship of Turkmenistan was held in the capital’s “Galkynysh” Sport Complex. It hosted nearly 100 participants of three age groups – children’s, junior and adult. Besides standard program, which included the contests on 10 kinds of European and Latin American dances, there also was a Cup of “Cha-cha-cha”.

Billiard Sport Federation of Turkmenistan was officially registered in Turkmenistan. It was immediately marked with holding of the First Championship of the country.

At the last week’s Jujitsu Championship of Central and South Asia which was held in the Indian city Bangalore Turkmen nationals demonstrated their high sporting excellence, having won 14 medals (!): eight gold, two silver and four bronze ones.

One more victory was added to the Turkmen sportsmen’s “victory-box”. Our chess players won the gold medal at the large international competitions of the “Open” tournament which was recently held in the city of Sovmesar (The Islamic Republic of Iran).

Our young players of the ancient intellectual game have obtained impressive results at the World Schools Individual Chess Championship, which recently ended in one of the famous tourist cities of Thailand – Pattaya. Three medals – two gold and one bronze replenished the “medal box” of Turkmen sportsmen.

Our athletes achieved good results at the sixth World Shotokan Championship, which recently ended in Tbilisi (Georgia). Two gold and one bronze medals, won in individual kumite and team kata (complex exercises) replenished the “medal box” of Turkmen sportsmen.

The National Chess Championship among men – members of the National League, ended with the triumph of young Turkmen Grand Master, 20-year-old resident of Ashgabat Maksat Atabaev. The representative the capital’s Chess School of the Ashgabat Sports Committee had no defeat in the course of the competitions, having scored 11.5 points out of 15 (10 wins and 5 draws).

The “Ashgabat-Derweze-Ashgabat” marathon, co-organized by the State Sports Committee of Turkmenistan, the Ministry of Health and Medical Industry of the country, and the National Motor Sport Center, ended in the capital.