On the eve of important international starts, including the Olympic Games in Paris, the Turkmenistan national weightlifting team arrived for training camps in Georgia under the guidance of an experienced 52-year-old Chinese specialist Lin Shufeng, the Turkmenistan newspaper reports: The Golden Age."

Lin Shufeng, the bronze medalist of the 1991 Junior World Championship in the weight category up to 75 kg and a participant in the 1996 Olympics in Atlanta, was invited to the coaching staff of the Turkmen national team last autumn. Under his leadership, Turkmen weightlifters won a number of medals of various denominations in December 2023 at the international Grand Prix II tournament in Doha (Qatar), in February 2024 at the Asian Championship in Tashkent (Uzbekistan) and in April this year at the World Cup in Phuket (Thailand).

Working in tandem with the head coach of the national team, Mansur Rejepov, experienced Chinese mentor Lin Shufeng conducts intensive training for 8 athletes at the sports base of the famous Georgian ski resort Bakuriani. Special attention is paid to the preparation of 23-year-old Davranbek Khasanbayev, who won a ticket to the Olympic Games in Paris.