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TURKMEN WEIGHTLIFTERS TO TAKE PART IN THE WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP STARTING IN TASHKENT
The team of Turkmenistan will take part in the World Weightlifting Championship that opens in Tashkent today.
The Turkmen delegation that went to the capital of Uzbekistan included 15 people (11 athletes, 2 coaches, 1 doctor and 1 representative of the Ministry of Sports and Youth Policy).
In the women's tournament, which is being held for the 29th time, Turkmenistan will be represented by: Yulduz Jumabayeva, Byagul Berdyeva (both in the weight category up to 49 kg), Polina Guryeva (up to 59 kg), Gulnabat Kadyrova (up to 71 kg) and Aisoltan Toychieva (up to 81 kg). And in men's (the competition will be held for the 86th time) - Seyitjan Mirzaev (up to 61 kg), Maksat Meredov (up to 73 kg), Rejepbay Rejepov, Shatlyk Shokhradov (both up to 81 kg), Rustam Annaberdiev (up to 89 kg) and Khojamuhammet Toychiev (over 109 kg).
On the eve of their departure to Tashkent, the weightlifters of the national team took part in an anti-doping educational seminar, which was organized by the Ministry of Sports and Youth Policy in cooperation with the National Anti-Doping Agency and the Weightlifting Federation of Turkmenistan at the Sport hotel in the capital.
Initially, the world championship was supposed to be held in Peru, but due to the coronavirus pandemic in September, the International Weightlifting Federation decided to move the competition to the capital of Uzbekistan.
The world championship, which will be the first in the new Olympic cycle, is expected to involve 432 athletes from 74 countries. Men and women will compete for big and small medals in 20 weight categories.
Two weeks before the start of the tournament, the Chinese national team refused to participate in it, which did not want to serve a month's quarantine after returning from the competition. The teams of South Africa and Botswana and a number of other countries, where the epidemiological situation has worsened due to the spread of the omicron strain of coronavirus, will also not come to Uzbekistan.
In the history of independent Turkmenistan, only four weightlifters have climbed the podium at the world championships. The famous athlete Altymurad Orazdurdyev was the first to reach the highest level in 1993 at the World Cup in Melbourne. Then he excelled in the weight category up to 76 kg with a result of 370 kg (snatch - 167.5 kg, clean and jerk - 202.5 kg).
In 2017, Christina Shermetova (up to 53 kg) and Rejepbay Rejepov (up to 77 kg) won silver medals at the World Championships in Anaheim (USA).
And this year, the International Weightlifting Federation proclaimed the Turkmen athlete Yulduz Jumabayeva the 2018 world champion among women in the weight category up to 45 kg instead of Tunya Sukcharoen from Thailand, who was previously disqualified for anti-doping rules violation. This became known after rechecking the samples of athletes who performed at the 2018 World Cup in Ashgabat.
Polina Guryeva will also try to multiply these achievements of our athletes on the Tashkent platform, who this year at the Tokyo Olympics won the first Olympic medal in the history of independent Turkmenistan - a silver - in the weight category up to 59 kg.