Turkmen athlete Muminjan Arzikulov has won a gold medal at the World Sambo Championships, which are taking place in Tashkent. He won the combat sambo competition in the up to 71 kg weight category.
In the final, Arzikulov defeated Andrey Kucherenko of Ukraine. The bronze medals went to Arsen Avedisyan of Armenia and Niyatkhan Toleukhan of Kazakhstan.
Two more bronze medals were brought to the Turkmenistan national team by Akhmet Tanryberdiyev in the up to 58 kg weight category and Kurbanay Kurbanova in the up to 50 kg category.
Earlier, on the first day of the competition, another representative of Turkmenistan, Sanjarbek Ovezberdiyev, won gold in the men's up to 64 kg category.
The anniversary World Championships were held in Tashkent from 6 to 8 November. Athletes from 101 countries took part in the competition, a record for the International Sambo Federation (FIAS).
The tournament was opened by FIAS President Vasily Shestakov. Among the invited guests were sambo ambassadors Fedor Emelianenko and Islam Makhachev.
For the first time in the history of FIAS, sambo competitions for blind women were included in the championship programme.
