The junior national athletics team of East Kazakhstan Region won seven gold medals on the first day of the Kazakhstan Championship alone.
The Kazakhstan Junior Athletics Championship started yesterday in Almaty and brought a huge amount of positive news for East Kazakhstanis. The national team of our region added two silver and bronze medals to the seven championship titles. But we will pay special attention to our champions.
The most “profitable” discipline for us was the 400 m running. In total, this distance brought us two gold and one silver medals. Efim Tarasov from Ridder won his race in a mocking manner, shaking his head at the finish line out of frustration that no one in Kazakhstan could offer him proper resistance, even at the junior level. Our citizen Ekaterina Efremova became the national champion at this distance, and only the Belousovskaya pupil Ayim Kaysanova, who ran to the finish line second, was able to impose the fight for the “gold” on her.
The most unexpected triumph was the victory of the men’s relay of the East Kazakhstan Region 4 to 100 m. Viktor Zakharov, Vladimir Feshchenko, Alexander Aksyutin and Ramiz Kartaev managed to win, despite the fact that none of them specializes in the 100 m distance! The women’s 4x100m relay was the third. The bronze medal in this type of program for East Kazakhstan Region was won by Daria Demchenko, Ayim Kaysanova, Ekaterina Efremova and Anastasia Zavodina. Zavodina, by the way, strengthened our relay race already being the champion of these competitions. Earlier, she won the gold medal in the long jump with the best result of 5.64 m in the last year.
Elizaveta Matveeva from Ust-Kamenogorsk continued the tradition of East Kazakhstan Region dominance in the high jump, winning with a score of 180 cm. Dmitry Lukichev did the same, however, in a different discipline – hammer throwing. Our countryman “swept” the nearest pursuer by three meters, showing 42.8 m in the best attempt.
Well, another bronze medal was awarded to Nursultan Zhumabekov in the pole vault.
The East Kazakhstan Region national team has 7 gold medals, while the closest pursuers in the team competition have only two each. But we still have very strong athletes in the 200 m run, men’s high jump, 4 to 400 relay races in classic and mixed versions and discus throwing. So a successful start day may well be the key to the final success of our squad!
Source: yk.kz
