The 50th World Sambo Championships take place from 6 to 8 November 2026 in Tashkent, with a record 101 countries entered. Sport sambo, combat sambo and sambo for the blind are on the programme, streamed live on the FIAS website.
Practical information
- Dates
- From Friday, November 6, 2026 to Sunday, November 8, 2026
- Venue
- Tachkent, Ouzbékistan
What's at stake
World titles in sport sambo, combat sambo and sambo for blind and visually impaired athletes, for men and women. For this 50th edition, the International Sambo Federation (FIAS) reports 101 countries, a record, against 11 nations at the first edition in 1973. A women's blind sambo competition is on the programme for the first time. Fedor Emelianenko and Islam Makhachev, appointed sambo ambassadors on 5 November, are attending.
Schedule
Three days, each with draws published the day before by FIAS. Friday 6 November: eleven categories, including combat sambo -64 and -88 kg and blind sambo. Saturday 7: twelve categories. Sunday 8: ten categories, -71 and -98 kg in men's sambo, -59, -72 and +80 kg in women's sambo, -79 and +98 kg in men's combat sambo, -54, -65 and -80 kg in women's combat sambo.
Getting there
FIAS has not named the venue in its releases. Bouts are streamed live on sambo.sport and results posted on live.sambo.sport.
Results
After two days Russia leads with ten titles, seven of them on Saturday (Aleksandr Suchkov, Artem Tadin, Sofia Tsibrova, Karina Cherevan, Valeriia Tepysheva, Vera Lotkova, Iana Poliakova) and three on Friday (Demid Volkov in combat sambo -88 kg, Andrei Demidov and Alsu Nasyrova in blind sambo). Georgia has four titles (Vakhtangi Chidrashvili, Giorgi Gamjashvili, Avto Mukbaniani, Ucha Tabatadze) and Uzbekistan two (Mavluda Abdullaeva, Ulmas Rayimov). Spain's Sarai Padilla Guerrero took silver at -65 kg. No French athlete among the medallists of the first two days. Source: FIAS, day 1 and day 2 results.