Turkmen athletes will bring home 26 medals of various distinctions from the 10th Central Asian WKF Karate Championship, which concluded in Bishkek, The Turkmenistan: Golden age electronic newspaper reports.

The competition featured 609 athletes from Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, and Uzbekistan, who competed for medals in the disciplines of kata (demonstration of formal exercises) and kumite (fighting) among cadets, juniors, and adults.

After four days of the tournament, our compatriots earned 9 gold, 6 silver, and 11 bronze medals.

On the first day of the competition, the students of Turkmenistan’s national team coaches Aydyn Charyev and Bayram Yalkabov won 7 medals (2 gold, 2 silver, and 3 bronze) in kata; on the second day, they won 5 medals (1 gold, 1 silver, and 3 bronze) in kumite; and on the third day, another 6 medals (2 gold, 2 silver, and 2 bronze) in fights.

On the final day of the championship, our karate athletes added 8 more medals to the team’s tally, winning 4 gold, 1 silver, and 3 bronze.