To-date, Tajik athletes have won 38 medals at the 2017 Asian Indoor and Martial Arts Games in Ashgabat, including 27 bronze and ten silver medals, according to the National Olympic Committee of Tajikistan (NOC).
Tajik belt wrestling team alone has reportedly won 27 medals, including 21 bronze and six silver medals.
Specialists says that an official closure of the Games will take place on September 27 and Tajik athletes still has a chance to win gold medals in kickboxing and sambo (a Soviet martial art and combat sport).
Recall, the 2017 Asian Indoor and Martial Arts Games is taking place in Turkmenistan and Tajik athletes are competing in chess, belt wrestling, freestyle wrestling, Greco-Roman wrestling, Muay Thai (Thai boxing), kickboxing, powerlifting, taekwondo (WTF), kurash, jiu-jitsu, sambo, and track and field athletics.
In all, 6,000 athletes from 62 countries are participating in the 2017 Asian Indoor and Martial Arts Games in Ashgabat, the source added.
The 2017 Asian Indoor and Martial Arts Games, which is also counted as the 5th Asian Indoor Games are being held in teh Turkmen capital, Ashgabat. Ashgabat, first in the former Soviet Central Asian region, won the right to host the Asian Indoor Games. The host city was chosen in Kuwait on December 19, 2010. On July 6, 2013, the flag of the Olympic Council of Asia was officially handed over to the mayor of the city of Ashgabat.
The Asian Indoor and Martial Arts Games are being 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. The construction was launched by the President of Turkmenistan Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedow. On November 5, 2010, the Turkmenistan President took part in the official stone laying ceremony for the Olympic Village. Investment in the first phase amounted to nearly $2 billion. The second phase of construction cost $3 billion. The total cost of the Olympic Village was $5 billion and the construction was carried by Turkish construction company Polimeks.
