The 14th World Kurash Wrestling Championship, which will be held on the 23rd to 28th of November, 2023 in Ashgabat, is expected to hold a record number of participants.
According to the Kurash Federation of Turkmenistan, if 365 people were involved in last year’s World Championships in the Indian city of Pune, 480 people have already applied to participate in the upcoming World Championships, including athletes (241), coaches, judges and other officials from 53 countries. And these numbers are not final yet, they may change due to great interest in the upcoming world championship, the Kurash Federation of Turkmenistan emphasized.
This is not the first time that Turkmenistan will host representative international competitions. In 2017, the Olympic Village of the capital hosted the V Asian Indoor and Martial Arts Games with great success, and in 2018, the World Weightlifting Championship and the Amul-Hazar 2018 International Rally.
In June of this year, the Turkmen capital for the second time became the venue for the Central Asian team tennis championship among boys and girls under 12 years old, in which young athletes from six countries – Afghanistan, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Uzbekistan, Tajikistan and Turkmenistan – competed for the title of the strongest.
And now Ashgabat is preparing to host another major world-scale tournament. In order to hold the World Kurash Championship at a high level, the President of Turkmenistan Serdar Berdimuhamedov signed a Resolution on the 12th of July, creating the Organizing Committee and approving its composition.
At the World Championships in Ashgabat, it is planned to compete for 15 sets of medals - in seven men's and eight women's weight categories.
Let us remind that last year the World Kurash Championship Turkmenistan was represented by 13 wrestlers (7 men and 6 women), and three of them returned to their homeland with medals.
Silver in the Turkmenistan team in the weight category up to 48 kg was won by the trainer-teacher of the 2nd sports school of the Main Department of Physical Culture and Sports of the Lebap velayat Ayshirin Haydarova, and bronze medals went to the trainer-teacher of the 7th sports school of the Lebap velayat Aynur Amanova (up to 52 kg ) and student of the Turkmen State Institute of Physical Culture and Sports Aziza Kurbanova (up to 78 kg).
