The large-scale preparatory work for the Year of Health and Inspiration and the V Asian Indoor and Martial Games has offered a powerful incentive to development of sports and physical culture in the regions of the country.
For example, 29 children and youth sports schools, where 17,500 young athletes practice various sports under the guidance of experienced coaches, work in the cities and etraps in Dashoguz Velayat. Football, futsal, volleyball, basketball, handball, tennis, various types of martial arts - karate, judo, combat and sports sambo, jiu-jitsu, boxing, freestyle and Greco-Roman wrestling, and athletics and weightlifting, powerlifting, swimming, intellectual games – checkers and chess are very popular among young people. The goresh national wrestling, duzzum old folk game, cycling highly develop in the region.
24 modern sports schools were opened on the territory of cities and etraps in the northern region of the country, 14 sports facilities and a modern sports complex with a stadium designed for 10,000 spectators were built in Dashoguz.
Young coach in weightlifting sports school, International Master of Sports Redjepbay Redjpov please compatriots with his successes. Redjepbay demonstrated the highest results in the under 77-kg weighting category and won the first place in the 2016 Open Weightlifting Championship of Turkmenistan. Another Dashoguz athlete - Ezizmurad Orashev (under 62-kg) took the third place in the 2016 Open Weightlifting Championship of Turkmenistan. These and other talented athletes are among the contenders for the 2017Asian Games.
For example, 29 children and youth sports schools, where 17,500 young athletes practice various sports under the guidance of experienced coaches, work in the cities and etraps in Dashoguz Velayat. Football, futsal, volleyball, basketball, handball, tennis, various types of martial arts - karate, judo, combat and sports sambo, jiu-jitsu, boxing, freestyle and Greco-Roman wrestling, and athletics and weightlifting, powerlifting, swimming, intellectual games – checkers and chess are very popular among young people. The goresh national wrestling, duzzum old folk game, cycling highly develop in the region.
24 modern sports schools were opened on the territory of cities and etraps in the northern region of the country, 14 sports facilities and a modern sports complex with a stadium designed for 10,000 spectators were built in Dashoguz.
Young coach in weightlifting sports school, International Master of Sports Redjepbay Redjpov please compatriots with his successes. Redjepbay demonstrated the highest results in the under 77-kg weighting category and won the first place in the 2016 Open Weightlifting Championship of Turkmenistan. Another Dashoguz athlete - Ezizmurad Orashev (under 62-kg) took the third place in the 2016 Open Weightlifting Championship of Turkmenistan. These and other talented athletes are among the contenders for the 2017Asian Games.
