Kyrgyz Premier League is the top division of professional football in Kyrgyzstan. It was created in 1992 after the Breakup of the Soviet Union. The league is composed of eight teams. The most successful team is Dordoi Bishkek who have won the league twelve times.
Pavel Viktorovich Matiash is a Kyrgyzstani footballer who plays for FC Alga Bishkek of Kyrgyz Premier League and the Kyrgyzstan national football team.
Anton Aleksandrovich Zemlianukhin is a Kyrgyzstani international footballer who plays for Alga Bishkek.
Maksim Agapov is a Kyrgyzstani footballer who plays as a goalkeeper for Xorazm FK Urganch. He previously played for Neftchi Kochkor-Ata, but after the dissolution of the club, he moved to his current club.
Islam Shamshiev, born 1 March 1991, is a Kyrgyzstani footballer who plays as a midfielder for FC Alay
Tursunali Khaitmakhamatovich Rustamov is a Kyrgyzstani footballer who plays as a forward for Dordoi Bishkek.
Evgeniy Timofeev is an alpine skier from Kyrgyzstan. He competed for Kyrgyzstan at the 2014 Winter Olympics in the slalom and giant slalom. He was the only Kyrgyzstani athlete in Sochi.
Daniel Nii Armah Tagoe is a Ghanaian-Kyrgyz international footballer who plays as a Defender for Dushanbe-83 in the Tajikistan Higher League. He is also a member of the Kyrgyzstan national football team.
Murat Jumakeyev is a Kyrgyzstani professional football player and manager.
Kyrgyzstan competed at the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, from 5 to 21 August 2016. This was the nation's sixth consecutive appearance at the Olympics in the post-Soviet era.
The Independence Day of Kyrgyzstan is the main state holiday in Kyrgyzstan. It is celebrated in Kyrgyzstan annually on August 31, the anniversary of its declaration of independence in 1991.
Viktor Kelm is a Kyrgyz football forward playing for FC Alay.
China participated in the 2017 Asian Winter Games in Sapporo and Obihiro, Japan from February 19 to 26. China competed in all five sports. The Chinese delegation consisted of 236 people.
During the Parade of Nations at the 2017 Asian Winter Games opening ceremony, held on 19 February 2017, 30 athletes bearing the flags of their respective nations led their national delegations as they paraded into the Sapporo Dome in the host city of Sapporo, Japan.
The 2018 Russian Figure Skating Championships were held from 19 to 24 December 2017 in Saint Petersburg. Medals were awarded in the disciplines of men's singles, ladies' singles, pair skating, and ice dance. The results were among the criteria used to select Russia's teams to the 2018 European Championships, 2018 Winter Olympics, and 2018 World Championships.
Kyrgyzstan competed at the 2018 Winter Olympics in Pyeongchang, South Korea, from 9 to 25 February 2018. The team, announced on January 10, 2018, consisted of two male athletes, one competing in alpine skiing and the other in cross-country skiing.
The Kyrgyzstan men's national junior ice hockey team is the men's national under-20 ice hockey team of Kyrgyzstan. The team is controlled by the Ice Hockey Federation of the Kyrgyz Republic, a member of the International Ice Hockey Federation. In December 2017 the team made their international debut at the 2018 IIHF U20 Challenge Cup of Asia where they finished second behind Malaysia.
The Kyrgyzstan competed at the 2018 Asian Games in Jakarta and Palembang, Indonesia, from 18 August to 2 September 2018. Kyrgyzstan made its first appearance at the Asian Games in 1994 Hiroshima, and the best achievement was in the 2002 Busan, with a gold, 5 silver and 6 bronze medals. At the last edition in Incheon, Kyrgyzstan managed to claim 2 silver and 4 bronze medals.
Akzhol Makhamadzhanovich Makhmudov is a Kyrgyzstani Greco-Roman wrestler.
Russia took part at the 2020 Winter Youth Olympics in Lausanne, Switzerland from 9 to 22 January 2020. A total of 104 athletes competed in 16 sports. Russian athletes won a record of 10 gold, 11 silver and 8 bronze medals, topping host Switzerland in the overall ranking.
