Students of Magtymguly Turkmen State University won the Grand Prix and five medals at the World Olympiad of Young Physicists 2026, held on 4–9 November on the Indonesian island of Bali. This was reported on the university's website.
The prize-winners were:
- Musa Artykov, a student of the TSU Faculty of Physics — gold medal and the Grand Prix;
- Kadyrberdi Yazdurdyyev, a student of the Faculty of Physics — gold medal;
- Davut Alybayev, a student of the Faculty of Radiophysics and Electronics — silver medal;
- Arslan Jumayev, a student of the Faculty of Radiophysics and Electronics — silver medal;
- Emir Tuvakov, a student of the Faculty of Radiophysics and Electronics — bronze medal.
The Turkmen team at the olympiad was led by Allamyrat Amanmadov, a lecturer at the TSU Department of Theoretical and Experimental Physics.
Around 200 students from 41 higher education institutions in Turkmenistan, Vietnam, Guatemala, Indonesia, the Philippines, Malaysia, Mexico, Romania, Myanmar, Thailand and Kazakhstan took part in the international competition.
