Vice President of the Basketball Federation of Turkmenistan Valery Sitnikov has been elected Secretary General of the Central Asian Basketball Association (CABA) FIBA Asia for the next four years. This was reported to Turkmenportal by the press service of the FBT.
The elections were held today in the capital of Kazakhstan, where a regional Congress is being held with the participation of representatives of all the National Basketball Federations of the five countries of Central Asia.
From Turkmenistan, the event is also attended by the Secretary General of the Basketball Federation of Turkmenistan, a member of the executive committee of FIBA Asia Bahar Mahtumova.
It should be noted that within the framework of the Congress, the results of the work of the entire Central Asian region were summed up and issues of further development of basketball in Central Asia were discussed.
CABA was established in June 2012 during the first Congress of the Central Asian zone FIBA Asia in Almaty (Kazakhstan). Sergey Shmakov, representative of Kazakhstan, was elected as the first CABA Secretary General.