Tajikistan with 51 medals has ended up in the 17th position in the overall standings at the 2017 Asian Indoor and Martial Arts Games in Ashgabat. Meanwhile, Tajikistan is in the 8th position in terms of the number of medals.
The 2017 Asian Indoor and Martial Arts Games closing ceremony took place on September 27.
In all, 6,000 athletes from 62 countries reportedly participated in the 2017 Asian Indoor and Martial Arts Games.
Tajik athletes competed in chess, belt wrestling, freestyle wrestling, Greco-Roman wrestling, Muay Thai (Thai boxing), kickboxing, powerlifting, taekwondo (WTF), kurash (one of the Turkic terms for “wrestling” and specifically refers to a number of folk wrestling styles practiced in Central Asia), jiu-jitsu, sambo (a Soviet martial art and combat sport), and track and field athletics.
Tajik athletes have won three gold, fourteen silver and 34 bronze medals. In the overall standings Tajikistan ended up in the 17th position, while and in terms of the number of medals it is in the 8th position.
Turkmenistan with 254 medals (88 gold, 70 silver and 86 bronze medals) won the overall team title at the 2017 Asian Indoor and Martial Arts Games. It is followed by China (97 medals – 42 gold, 32 silver and 23 bronze medals) and Iran (118 medals – 36 gold, 23 silver and 59 bronze medals).
The 2017 Asian Indoor and Martial Arts Games, which are also counted as the 5th Asian Indoor Games, were held in the Turkmen capital, Ashgabat. Ashgabat, first in the former Soviet Central Asian region, won the right to host the Asian Indoor Games.
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. 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.
