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Turkmenistan's capital, Ashgabat, has an Olympic Park, [2] which, in 2017, hosted Asian Olympic Council’s Asian Indoor & Martial Arts games that included participation from Australia and wider Oceania. [3] It also hosted the 2018 World Weightlifting Championships. The National Olympic Committee of Turkmenistan was formed in 1990.
Turkmenistan qualified two judokas for the following weight classes at the Games. Serdar Rahimov (men's half-lightweight, 66 kg) and Maysa Pardayeva (women's lightweight, 57 kg) got qualified via quota based on IJF World Ranking List and continental quota based on Olympic point rankings.
The Asian Indoor and Martial Arts Games were held at the Ashgabat Olympic Complex, which is a unique facility which has no parallel in the Central Asian region. The Complex boasts of over 30 structures, which also includes 15 competition venues, an Athletes' Village and a Paralympic Rehabilitation Medical Center.
Turkmenistan has taken part in the Summer Olympics since 1996.
This was the nation's seventh consecutive appearance at the Summer Olympics in the post-Soviet era. Polina Guryeva won the country's first ever medal by placing second in the women's 59 kg in weightlifting. With that achievement Turkmenistan became the last post-Soviet country to win a medal at the Olympics.
It opened in 2017 on the site of the original Olympic Stadium, which had stood from 2003 until 2013. [7] The stadium is Turkmenistan's national football stadium, and thus was hosts the majority of the Turkmenistan national team. The stadium is a part of the Ashgabat Olympic Complex, and is located in Kopetdag District of Ashgabat city. [8]
The National Olympic Committee of Turkmenistan (IOC code: TKM) is the National Olympic Committee representing Turkmenistan. It is led by the President of Turkmenistan, Serdar Berdimuhamedow. The headquarters of the committee is in the capital city of Ashgabat.
Turkmenistan competed at the 2025 Asian Winter Games in Harbin, China, from February 7 to 14. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] The Turkmenistani team consisted of 24 athletes competing in three sports. [ 3 ] Hockey player Dovlet Hydyrov was the country's opening ceremony flagbearer.