After 10 years in Turkmenistan an issue of the development of mass and big sport again will be worked out by the separate sports agency – the State Committee for Physical Culture and Sports. The corresponding Decree on creation on the basis of revoked Ministry of Sports and Youth Policy signed today the President Serdar Berdimuhamedov at the meeting of the Cabinet of Ministers, reports the information program “Watan” of the Turkmen television.

The State Committee of Turkmenistan for Physical Culture and Sports has been designated “the legal successor of the Ministry of Sports and Youth Policy that has ceased its activities,” the Decree says.

The document also underlines that this decision is made “in the aims of improvement of domestic sports field in the epoch of revival of a new era of a powerful state, the enhancement of the world authority of Turkmen sports, as well as the broad involvement of the country's population in sports, the further dissemination of the principles of a healthy lifestyle through the physical culture and sports and Olympic movement”.

In order to properly organize the activities of the State committee of Turkmenistan for Physical Culture and Sports, the Head of State approved the Regulation as well as its central apparatus structure.

Ten years ago, a State Committee of Turkmenistan for Sports was created on the basis of revoked State Committee for Tourism and Sports. Then the reason for its creation was the unsuccessful performance of Turkmen athletes at the 2012 Olympic Games in London.

In 2018, the State Committee of Turkmenistan for Sports was revoked and on its basis was established the Ministry of Sports and Youth Policy “in order to radically transform the sports sphere, coordinate activities in the field of sports and youth policy, as well as the education of patriotic, broad-minded, hardworking, highly cultured youth”.

And now, a year after the successful performance of the team at the Olympic Games in Tokyo, where for the first time in the history of Turkmenistan's independence, the first Olympic silver medal was won in weightlifting competitions, a state sports organization reappeared in the country.