Ï Turkmen track and field athletes started competitions with strongest sportsmen of the planet during XXXI Olympic Games
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Turkmen track and field athletes started competitions with strongest sportsmen of the planet during XXXI Olympic Games

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Master of sport Elena Ryabova entered running tracks of Olympic Stadium, where she competed in quarter final 200 metres sprint run heats.

This discipline became most numerous by number of medal contenders – more 70 athletes. There are Michelle-Lee Ahye (Trinidad and Tobago), the bronze winner of World Championship in 2015, Simone Facey (Jamaica), the prize winner of Diamond League and winner of World Track and Field Championship in relay race, Natalya Strohova (Ukraine), the finalist of European Championship of the last year and others among them.

The student of honoured coach of Turkmenistan Haji Rahmanov, E. Ryabova run on the sixth track and finished in 25.45 seconds as a result.

Anther Turkmen sportsman, Amanmyrat Hommadov will start hammer throw competitions on August 17. Masters of power lifting will enter the Olympic stage on the day before. Our country will be represented by Hojamuhammet Toychiyev. He will have to contend for prizes in above 105 kilograms weight category.