The first ever e-Sport competition at the Asian Indoor and Martial Arts Games starts on Monday, with action in Dota 2, StarCraft II, Hearthstone and King of Fighters XIV. E-Sports is making its debut as a demonstration sport at the Games. The competition runs over three days, through to 27 September, the final day of Ashgabat 2017.   A draw ahead of the competition decided groups and seeds. Dota 2 teams will play in one group of ‘round robin’ play. China, has two teams in Dota 2, while Turkm...

Sandra Abbas (LBN) will swap the bright lights of the television studio for the scrutiny of judges at the 5th Asian Indoor and Martial Arts Games. The 28-year-old this year won season four of the Middle East edition of the worldwide hit Dancing With The Stars alongside actor and poet Badih Abu Chakra. The show teams up a professional dancer with a celebrity, many of whom have no previous dancing experience. Now she will be hoping to impress with partner Assadour Euredjian (LBN) when the...

Big hall of the Media Centre held the press conference where President of International Sambo Federation Vasiliy Shestakov (Russia) has spoken to domestic and foreign mass media. He informed about the decision of the Executive Committee of the Olympic Council of Asia made on the session in Ashgabat on September 20 on inclusion of sambo to the programme of the Asian Games.  Sport sambo competitions will take place in six weight categories (62, 74 and 90 kg men and 65, 64 and 72 kg women) under...

The developed sports infrastructure and huge attention which is given by President Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedov to the sports sphere - the major resource of public progress, became an important condition which has caused the choice of Turkmenistan as a venue for the 5th Asian indoor and martial arts games. Thanks to the large scale work, today our capital has unique sports objects in region answering to the international standards and allowing organising competitions at the highest level. Besides i...

Over 500 foreign journalists are working in Turkmenistan these days, providing prompt coverage of the course of the 5th Asian Indoor and Martial Arts Games. The Media Center of the Olympic Village guarantees efficient and operational work of foreign media professionals. Accredited press have the best contemporary technology at their disposal, they are provided with connection to their editorial offices and with comfortable work rooms.  537 journalists from 82 countries are working at the...

Our sportsmen distinguished themselves in kickboxing, sambo, free style wrestling, power lifting and basketball having won another 13 medals including two gold ones at V Asian Indoor and Martial Arts Games continuing in the capital.  At the moment, Turkmenistan team is leading confidently in total count having 206 medals including 79 gold, 58 silver and 69 bronze medals.  Our athlete Ahment Tanriberdiyev won the gold in sambo in weight category up to 57 kg, having overcome Rahmatjon Ah...

61 transactions were registered past week at the State Commodity and Raw Materials Exchange of Turkmenistan.  Entrepreneurs from Afghanistan purchased, in foreign currency, gasoline produced at the Turkmenbashi Complex of Oil Refineries. Moreover, refined sunflower oil, denim fabric and cotton yarn were sold in foreign currency. Russia, United Arab Emirates, Turkey, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan and others were the buyer countries. The total value of transactions exceeded 37 million 111 thousand US...