Universal Fight Asian Championship was held in Tashkent
By Suhbat
Daminov, UT
One year ago the capital of
Uzbekistan hosted the 8th Universal Fight World Championship: at that time it
was a little familiar Uzbek people single combat, which includes obstacle
course, shooting, knife throwing and fighting on the ring. And now there would
be new, though less scaled, but not less important event for sportsmen, the
championship of the continent.
The defending champion and winner of Uzbekistan Cup qualified to the 1/8 final of the AFC Champions League
By Sergey Danilov
The easiness with which the young capital club reached the semifinals of the last year’s Champions League gave the footballers and fans confidence that the next continental championship will be even more successful: the international debut brought a lot of experience and stirred up new ambitions.
Tennis players from all continents gathered in Ferghana these days
By Alisher Daniyarov
Samarkand and Ferghana were the first regional centers after Tashkent to begin carrying out international tennis tournaments when this game started to find mass recognition and love in Uzbekistan in the mid 90s of the last century. Yet today they adhere to this choice and annually organize popular men’s challengers with US$35,000 prize money. Samarkand in August, and Ferghana now in May…
This year is the 30th anniversary of the air crash when 17 football players of Tashkent Pakhtakor were killed.
By Suhbat Daminov
Since the beginning of the year Pakhtakor football club carries out memorable actions devoted to legendary football players and trainers of the favorite team.
Masters of canoeing have entered the World Cup race. Sportsmen of Uzbekistan won one gold and two silver medals on the first stage of the World Cup in Racice, Czech Republic.
After eight years tennis players of Uzbekistan have reached the World Group playoff of the Davis Cup again
By Sergey Danilov
In the hierarchy of men’s Asian tennis teams of Korea and Japan constantly take leading positions. Tennis players of Uzbekistan were drawn to play both of them in two rounds of the Davis Cup. It makes it easy to evaluate how the skill of young Uzbek players has grown, as they managed to beat both opponents.