– The first Junior & Cadet Central Asian Fencing Open Championship will be held in the Uzbek capital.

Four Tajik swordmen will take part in the championship. The athletes started preparing for the championship in early February at the Sports Complex of the Tax Committee of Tajikistan. Their coach Rustam Nasimov is preparing has been training them for the important championship.

Afghan, Turkmen, Kyrgyz, Kazakh and Uzbek athletes will also take part in the championship.

This sports event is organized by the Ministry of Physical Culture and Sports of Uzbekistan, the National Olympic Committee, as well as the National News Agency, the National Television and Radio Company of Uzbekistan, the Fencing Federation and a number of other organizations.