The Olympic Council of Asia (OCA) is a governing body of sports in Asia, currently with 45 member National Olympic Committees. The current Acting President is Raja Randhir Singh, substituting Sheikh Ahmad Al Fahad Al Sabah.
Saparmurat Turkmenbashy Olympic Stadium is a multi-purpose stadium in Ashgabat, Turkmenistan, that stood on the site now occupied by the new Olympic Stadium, built between 2013 and 2017.
Turkmenistan has competed in seven Games of the Olympiad, first appearing in 1996. They have never competed in the Olympic Winter Games and are the only Post-Soviet state not to have competed in them. Turkmenistan is also the northernmost country in the world to have never competed in the Winter Olympics. Turkmen athletes previously competed with the Soviet Union team and, in 1992, as part of the Unified Team.
The Asian Indoor and Martial Arts Games is a pancontinental multi-sport event held every four years among athletes from all over Asia. It is organised by the Olympic Council of Asia (OCA) and consists of Indoor and martial arts events with TV broadcasting potential, some of which were not contested at the Asian Games and Winter Asian Games Programs and are not Olympic sports. The event is a merger of two formerly separate OCA-sanctioned events – Asian Indoor Games and Asian Martial Arts Games, first held in Bangkok, Thailand in 2005 and 2009 respectively. These Games are described as the second largest Asian multi-sport event after the Asian Games. In its history, five nations have hosted the Asian Indoor and Martial Arts Games and sixty-three nations from Asia and Oceania and two teams have participated in the event. The last Games were held in Ashgabat, Turkmenistan 17–27 September 2017, while the next edition are scheduled to be held in Thailand between 17 and 26 November 2023.
Indoor athletics has been contested at every Asian Indoor Games and Asian Indoor and Martial Arts Games since the inaugural games at the 2005 Asian Indoor Games, except the first combined games at the 2013 Asian Indoor and Martial Arts Games. The programme includes track and field events in 26 events. The World Athletics and Asian Athletics Association are the world and continental respectively governing body.
The 2017 Asian Indoor and Martial Arts Games, which is also counted as the 5th Asian Indoor Games, was held in Ashgabat, Turkmenistan in 2017. It became the third city in the former Soviet countries to win the right of hosting an Olympic Council of Asia-sanctioned event, following Astana and Almaty in Kazakhstan, which jointly-hosted the 2011 Asian Winter Games. The host city was chosen in Kuwait on 19 December 2010. On 6 July 2013 the flag of the Olympic Council of Asia was officially handed over to the mayor of the city of Ashgabat.
Iran participated at the 2017 Asian Indoor and Martial Arts Games in Ashgabat, Turkmenistan from 17 September to 27 September 2017.
Cook Islands competed at the 2017 Asian Indoor and Martial Arts Games held in Ashgabat, Turkmenistan from September 17 to 27. 10 athletes competed in 4 different sports. Cook Islands team couldn't receive any medal at the Games.
Nauru competed at the 2017 Asian Indoor and Martial Arts Games held in Ashgabat, Turkmenistan from September 17 to 27. 9 participants competed in 3 different sports. Nauru did not win any medals in the multi-sport event.
Rejepbaý Rejepow is a Turkmen weightlifter. His best result was a silver medal at the 2017 World Weightlifting Championships in Anaheim, United States. Rejepow is also a distinguished athlete of the State Migration Service of Turkmenistan. He competed in the men's 81 kg at the 2020 Summer Olympics held in Tokyo, Japan.
Omadoy Otakuziyeva is an Uzbekistani weightlifter. She won the silver medal in the women's 75 kg event at the 2018 Asian Games held in Jakarta, Indonesia.
Dolera Davronova is an Uzbekistani weightlifter. She won the silver medal in the girls' +63 kg event at the 2018 Summer Youth Olympics held in Buenos Aires, Argentina. At the time, she won the bronze medal but Supatchanin Khamhaeng of Thailand was stripped of her gold medal after testing positive for a banned substance.
Kristel Macrohon is a Filipino weightlifter. She won the gold medal in the women's 71 kg event at the 2019 Southeast Asian Games held in Manila, Philippines.
Acchedya Jagaddhita is an Indonesian weightlifter.
Homayoun Teymouri is an Iranian weightlifter. In 2017, at the 2017 Islamic Solidarity Games held in Baku, Azerbaijan, he won the silver medal in the men's +105 kg event. At the 2017 Asian Indoor and Martial Arts Games held in Ashgabat, Turkmenistan he won the bronze medal in the men's +105 kg event.
Lorraine Henao Harry is a Papua New Guinean weightlifter. She represented Papua New Guinea at the 2019 Pacific Games and she won the silver medal in the women's 87 kg event.
Saudi Arabia competed at the 2017 Asian Indoor and Martial Arts Games held in Ashgabat, Turkmenistan.
South Korea competed at the 2017 Asian Indoor and Martial Arts Games held in Ashgabat, Turkmenistan.
Seraj Al-Saleem is a Saudi Arabian weightlifter. He won the bronze medal in the men's 61 kg event at the 2021 World Weightlifting Championships held in Tashkent, Uzbekistan. He also won the silver medal in the men's 61 kg event at the 2020 Asian Weightlifting Championships, also held in Tashkent, Uzbekistan.
Mahmoud Al-Humayd is a Saudi Arabian weightlifter. In 2021, he represented Saudi Arabia at the 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo, Japan. He competed in the men's 73 kg event.
