The first day of competition in the program of the 14th World Kurash Wrestling Championship has ended at the Martial Arts Sports Complex of the Ashgabat Olympic Village, TDH writes.

At the end of the first day of competition, the Turkmen team won two gold, three silver and three bronze medals.

Dinara Rozykulova (weight category up to 63 kg) brought the first gold to the Turkmenistan team. On the way to this success, she won in the quarterfinals against Snehal Ramesh Kavare (India), in the semifinals she caught a throw and won a clear victory over Tahereh Azarpeivand (Iran), and in the final, in a bitter fight, she prevailed over Wang-Ting Lee (Taiwan), which was awarded a silver medal. The bronze medalists in this weight category were Iranian Tahereh Azarpeivand and Russian Vladlena Guseva, who competed under the flag of the International Kurash Association (IKA).

Mariya Lohova (up to 70 kg) won the second gold medal in the Turkmenistan team. Four years ago, this talented athlete became the Asian champion at competitions in Pune, India. And now she has added the title of world champion to this title, defeating Sina Sina (India) in the quarterfinals, Ly Huynh Tuon Vi (Vietnam) in the semifinals, and Donya Aghai (Iran) in the final, who became the silver medalist. Bronze medals in this weight category were awarded to Ly Huynh Tuon Vi (Vietnam) and Azhar Salykova (Kazakhstan).

Silver medals in the Turkmenistan team were awarded to: 2022 world vice-champion and 2019 world championship bronze medalist Ayshirin Haydarova, 2019 world champion and bronze medalist of the 19th Summer Asian Games in Hangzhou (China) Aynur Amanova and Sanjar Abdyrahmanov.

Ayshirin Haydarova achieved silver success in the up to 48 kg category, in which Ulbusin Khakimova (Uzbekistan) excelled, and Savira Dia Fitri Rizkianti (Indonesia) and Begumnaz Dogruyol (Turkey) won bronze medals.

Aynur Amanova rose to the second step of the podium in the weight category up to 52 kg, in which Hilola Ortikboeva (Uzbekistan) became the world champion, and Nada Ashraf (Egypt) and Yu-Hsuan Chuan (Taiwan) became the bronze medalists.

Sanjar Abdyrahmanov won a silver medal in the weight category up to 90 kg, in which Erkin Kozokov (Uzbekistan) won the highest award, and Masud Gavibazu (Iran) and Zhamalbek Asylbek Uulu (Kyrgyz Republic) won bronze medals.

Bronze medalists in the Turkmenistan team were Gulshat Annaeva, Ruslan Esgerov and Sapa Sapaev.

Gulshat Annayeva won bronze in the up to 57 kg category, in which Rauza Nurmahammetova (Kazakhstan) also climbed to the third step of the podium, Pardis Eidivandi (Iran) to the second, and Nguyen Thi Bich Ngoc (Vietnam) to the first.

Ruslan Esgerov achieved bronze success in the weight category up to 100 kg, in which the second bronze medal was awarded to Firdavs Nasimov (Tajikistan), the silver medal to Hamed Rashidi (Iran), and the gold medal to Jamshid Mamatrakhimov (Uzbekistan).

In the super heavy weight category over 100 kg, the prize places were distributed as follows: first - Mukhsin Khisomiddinov (Uzbekistan), second - Abdulfazl Torabi (Iran) and third - Sapa Sapaev (Turkmenistan) and Hurshed Majidov (Tajikistan).

On November 28, the remaining 7 sets of medals will be played at the World Kurash Championship - four for men and three for women.