On January 11, the first stage of the Athletics Cup of the Republic of Kazakhstan ended. On the second day of the competition, unfortunately, not all athletes from East Kazakhstan Region managed to get on the list of winners. But, nevertheless, the performances were very spectacular.
The only girl who managed to get a medal was Elina Mikhina in the 200 m. By the way, this is the second award in a row during these competitions. Recall that yesterday the Ridder runner became the leader in the 400 m distance, ahead of Svetlana Golendova from Zhambyl region and Adelina Akhmetova from Karaganda. Today, everything has changed dramatically.
In the preliminary race, Elina continued to maintain the status of the winner on the track, but in the final, she still lost her place to Golendova. Our athlete’s preliminary race turned out with a decent margin of 0.28 s (24.49 s), in the evening program Mikhina improved her result by 0.02 s (24.47 s), but unfortunately this was not enough to win the gold. As a result, the East Kazakhstan runner became the second, and Lyubov Ushakova from the Karaganda region finished after her.
The “battle” in the men’s 800 m race turned out to be interesting. Duman Gabdygaliyev from Karaganda and Evgeny Arkhipov from East Kazakhstan Region became the clear leaders, because judging by the time, it was decided until the last hundredths of seconds who would still climb to the first step of the podium. Closer to the finish, the Karaganda athlete still managed to get ahead and leave our athlete behind. But who knows what awaits us in the next stages of the Kazakhstan Cup.
Vitaly Licenberger managed to take one of the first three lines of the final protocol in the 60 m hurdles. Things are no less interesting here than Arkhipov’s. In the preliminary race, the men finished in the order of Zems (8.10 s) – Licenberger (8.35) – Sablin (8.47). In the final, the list of winners did not change, but only the Karaganda runner Vyacheslav Zems could hold on. Vitaly and Artyom switched places. Not only did Sablin win back the second place from our athlete, he did it with the same time that allowed Lentenberger to claim silver in the preliminary stage. With a small but catchy result of 8.36 seconds, Vitaly lost only 0.01 seconds to an athlete from South Kazakhstan region.
The second stage of the Indoor Athletics Cup of the Republic of Kazakhstan will be held on February 16-17.
Results.
Women.
Running 200 m:
1. Svetlana Golendova (ZHBL) – 23.87 s
2. Elina Mikhina (East Kazakhstan Region) – 24.47 s
3. Lyubov Ushakova (KRG) – 25.54 s
Men.
Running 800 m:
1. Duman Gabdygaliev (KRG) – 1:53.3
2. Evgeny Arkhipov (East Kazakhstan Region) – 1:53.7
3. Damir Akhmetov (KRG) – 1:54.3
Running 60 m s/b:
1. Vyacheslav Zems (KRG) – 7.99 s
2. Artyom Sablin (South Kazakhstan Region) – 8.35 s
3. Vitaly Licenberger (East Kazakhstan Region) – 8.36 s
Inna Semenyak
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