General Secretary of the National Olympic Committee of Turkmenistan Ata Akmammedov became a member of the Coordination Committee of the Olympic Council of Asia for the Asian Youth Games, which will be held in 2025 in Tashkent. This was announced by the acting president of the Olympic Council of Asia (OCA), Raja Randhir Singh, in a letter received by the NOC of Turkmenistan.

37-year-old Ata Akmammedov has been acting as General Secretary of the NOC of Turkmenistan since January 2021.

In addition to him, the OCA Coordination Committee for the Asian Youth Games 2025 included seven more people, including OCA Vice President Timothy Fok, President of the NOC of Nepal Jivan Ram Shrestha, General Secretary of the NOC of Tajikistan Muhmadsho Abdulloyev, Secretary General of the NOC of Bangladesh Shahid Reza, General Secretary of the United Arab Emirates Faris Mohammed Al Mutawa, General Secretary of the NOC of Pakistan Khalid Al Mahmood.

The Asian Youth Games, also known as AYG, is the second largest multi-sports event after the Asian Games, held every four years. They are held under the auspices of the Olympic Council of Asia.

The first Asian Youth Games took place in 2009 in Singapore, the second in 2013 in Nanjing (China). The next Games were originally scheduled to take place in Jakarta in 2017, but were cancelled. Later, it was decided to hold the third Asian Youth Games in 2021 in Shantou (China), but due to the coronavirus pandemic, they also did not take place. And now there is every reason that in 2025 the best young athletes in Asia will gather for the next continental Games in the capital of Uzbekistan.