Six athletes will represent Turkmenistan at the 2026 Asian weightlifting championships, which started in Gandhinagar (India).
The competition brought together 172 weightlifters from 28 countries, competing for medals in eight men's and eight women's weight categories.
Bunyad Rashidov (up to 71 kg) and Bektimur Reyimov (up to 79 kg) will be the first in our team to take the stage on the 14th of May. The next day, Ramazan Torayev and Gaygysyz Torayev will compete for medals in the 88 kg weight category. Rustem Annaberdiyev will represent Turkmenistan in the 94 kg weight class. Davranbek Hasanbayev will complete the performance of Turkmen weightlifters at the Asian Championships in the 110 kg category.
After a 44-year hiatus, India is hosting the Asian weightlifting championships for the second time. Previously, the continental championship in this country took place in 1982. It took place in Delhi as part of the IX Asian Games.
At the Asian championships of the last year, which took place in Jiangshan (China), Turkmen weightlifters won 6 medals and took ninth place in the team standings with 1 gold, 1 silver, and 4 bronze medals. Davranbek Hasanbayev (up to 102 kg) won three medals for the Turkmenistan team – gold in the snatch (182 kg) and two bronze in the clean and jerk (195 kg) and the combined total (377 kg). Our weightlifters won two medals in the 73 kg weight category: Bunyad Rashidov won silver in the snatch with a result of 150 kg, and Bektimur Reyimov took bronze in the same event, lifting a weight of 148 kg. Another bronze medal for our team went to Anamjan Rustamova, who showed the third result in the clean and jerk (138 kg) in the 87 kg category.
