Thursday, 21, November, 2024

Sports

World Boxing has approved applications from the National Federations (NFs) for boxing in Uzbekistan, Kazakhstan, Guatemala and Laos to take its membership to 55 countries.

The football match between Neftchi-W and Sevinch as part of the 24th matchday of the Women's High League scheduled for Sunday did not take place today.

Uzbekistan national and youth hockey team will for the first time ever participate in 2025 IIHF World Hockey Championship starting from the lowest Division IV grouped with Iran, Kuwait, Indonesia, Malaysia and Armenia.

Head coach of the Uzbekistan national football team Srecko Katanec announced the squad for the third round 2026 World Cup qualifiers against Iran on October 10 (home) and the UAE on October 15 (home).

Uzbek sumo wrestler Durdona Abdujabborova won a bronze medal at the 25th World Sumo Championship, Dunyo said. Reportedly, this has been the first ever sumo world championship medal for Uzbekistan.

Head coach of the national team of Uzbekistan, Srečko Katanec announced the squad for the World Cup 2026 Qualifiers against DPRK (home) on September 5 and Kyrgyzstan (away) on September 10.

Olympic judo champion Diyora Keldyorova asked Uzbeks to stop writing hate comments to Uta Abe. “I ask everyone, no matter who they are, to show deep respect for everyone. This is, of course, sports, this is the force that unites us! We are a judo family, please stop it. In my opinion, the most important thing judo teaches people is the respect,” Keldyorova wrote in her Instagram Stories.

In the women's -52kg category, the performance of Diyora Keldiyorova of Uzbekistan was stratospheric. She is coached by Marko Spittka, who had the perfect day to win a first Olympic title in the history of Uzbek judo for women and men, the International Judo federation (IJF) said. Uzbekistan had no tradition of women's judo until recently, and this is a magnificent feat that will inspire generations of young girls across the country.

The Uzbekistan team will begin its campaign at the Olympic Games in France with a clash against Spain today at 18:00 Tashkent time at the Parc des Princes in Paris.

The head coach of Uzbekistan Olympic team, Temur Kapadze announced a 23- player squad for the Paris 2024 Olympics. 3 players aged over 23 - Eldor Shomurodov, Oston Orunov and Husniddin Alikulov joined the team.

Farewell ceremony of the Uzbekistan sports delegation to the Paris-2024 Olympics took place today at the Museum of Olympic and Paralympic Fame in Tashkent capital.

Uzbekistan will face Iran, Qatar as they learn 2026 World Cup qualifying fate after the draw for the 3rd qualifying round at a ceremony in Kuala Lumpur.

Uzbek athletes have won a total of 50 berths for Paris Olympic games 2024 in 17 sports, Dunyo news agency said. Reportedly, member of the Uzbekistan women's national boxing, Navbahor Hamidova (-66 kg) won another berth yesterday, bringing the total berth for the Paris-2024 Summer Olympic Games to 50. For the first time, female boxers got 4 tickets to the Olympic Games.

Head coach of the Uzbekistan national football team, Srečko Katanec has announced the squad for Turkmenistan (home) and Iran (away) WC Qualifiers on June 6 and 11.

Uzbekistan national hockey team will join the 2025 IIHF World Hockey Championship from starting from the lowest Division IV grouped with Iran, Kuwait, Indonesia, Malaysia and Armenia.

Australia and Uzbekistan have been confirmed as the hosts of the 2026 and 2029 editions of the Asian Football Confederation (AFC) Women's Asian Cup, respectively, the AFC said on Wednesday.

For the second time in a row Uzbekistan won the IIHF 2024 Ice Hockey U-18 Asia and Oceania Championship which it hosted. In the final on Tuesday they defeated Thailand, the press service of the National Olympic Committee said.

President Shavkat Mirziyoyev congratulated the Uzbekistan U23 team after the team reached the final of the AFC CU U23 in Qatar and winning one of the automatic berths for the 2024 Summer Olympics in Paris. The day before, Uzbekistan defeated Indonesia and will face Japan in the final on May 3.

Srecko Katanec has announced the 23-men squad of Uzbekistan national team for the training camp in preparation for 2 matches (home and away) of WC Qualifiers Round against Hong Kong on March 21 and 26.

For the first time ever, an Uzbek fencer won a medal at the Senior World Cup in Peru, the National Olympic Committee said.