According to the NOC press service, the assembly participants unanimously supported his candidacy.
It should be recalled that earlier Ravshan Irmatov was appointed to the post of deputy minister.
Oybek Kasimov was born in 1980 in Tashkent. During his career, he held important posts at the Pakhtakor FC, the Tashkent Football Federation, as well as the National Olympic Committee and the Ministry of Physical Culture and Sports. After the Olympics in Rio, he was awarded the state order “Dustlik”.
