That score was enough to pull ahead of all but one of her 14 opponents, earning Guryeva the silver medal and Turkmenistan's first podium finish in the nation's history. The gold medal went to Chinese ...

In all, 32 sports will be part of the program for the Paris 2024 Olympic Games. Each sport has its own international federation, and within a sport, several disciplines can coexist - such as road ...

Turkmenistan's sports minister has been given a stinging rebuke by the president for the poor performance of the reclusive Central Asian state's six athletes at the Olympics in Paris. "On the ...

The nine athletes in the first preliminary race on the first morning of track and field at the Paris Olympics came from South ...

Turkmenistan's president, Serdar Berdymukhamedo, has reprimanded the former Soviet republic's head of sports his sports chief for poor results in Paris Olympics. The message was broadcast on state ...

Burkinabe athletes competed in the 1972 Munich Games. After a hiatus, they've participated at each Summer Olympics since 1988. Burkina Faso joins Turkmenistan and San Marino as nations to win their ...

This is not a movie but a game of kokpar, a horseback sport known and played across Central Asia, and a thrilling climax to ...

The Turkmen karateka Alymukhammet Kakalyev won a bronze medal at the 22nd Asian Cadet, Junior & U21 Championship, held in Manila, the capital of the Philippines. The competition, organized under the ...

Having starred at the Summer Olympics in Paris, Central Asia’s boxers find themselves caught between the embrace of a Russian ...

With the Asian Boxing Confederation refusing to join the International Olympic Committee ‘promoted’ World Boxing, the Olympic ...

Several other NOCs, including India, Hong Kong China and Jordan, have enjoyed their most productive Olympics in terms of multiple medals, while Turkmenistan claimed their first ever Olympic medal ...