Young Tajik athletes Maryam and Shokhrukh Temuri from Dushanbe School No. 14 won the Grappling World Cup in Tashkent.
From September 4-7, Tashkent hosted the AIGA World Cup 2025 Grappling World Cup, which was attended by more than a thousand athletes from around the world.
The Tajik national team was worthily represented by young wrestlers, brother and sister Maryam and Shokhrukh Temuri, "Asia-Plus" was informed at the "Arconi " Sports Club, where young athletes train.
Grappling is a modern type of martial arts that combines elements of Brazilian jiu-jitsu, judo, sambo and freestyle wrestling. Punches are prohibited in it, and victory is achieved through painful and suffocating techniques or by points.
Maryam Temuri, a student of the 2nd "B" class, competed in the weight category up to 34 kg. She confidently passed the tournament bracket: first she defeated her opponent from Kazakhstan, and in the final she beat an athlete from Uzbekistan.
Thus, Maryam became the first World Cup champion in the history of Tajik grappling.
Her brother, Shokhrukh Temuri, a student of the 3rd "B" class, also fought in the weight category up to 34 kg. In the first fight, he defeated the five-time world champion, reached the semifinals, where he lost to his Kazakhstani opponent by only two points.
Following the results of the competition, Shokhrukh took the third place and became the bronze medalist of the World Cup.
More than a thousand athletes from different countries took part in the competition: CIS, China, Turkey, Brazil, Russia, Tajikistan, Kyrgyzstan, Poland, Korea, Kazakhstan.
