Independence Day of Kazakhstan. How can athletes celebrate it? Of course, doing what you love – competing with each other! Moreover, in this case, pleasant things can be combined with useful ones, because Kazakhstan Indoor Championships in different age categories are on the nose.
The entire winter season of Kazakhstan will be held this year in Ust-Kamenogorsk, because only here there is an arena so decent that it would not be a shame to train the entire national athletics team of Kazakhstan.
On Independence Day, 170 athletes of two age categories took part in the competition: 1998-99 and 2000-2001. The nearest national championship will be held at these ages. So the guys need to gain competitive experience. By the way, the current start may well claim the title of republican – not only Ustkamenogorsk athletes and track and field athletes from nearby towns and villages, a la Ridder, Semey and Belousovka, take part in the open championship of the school. Even the guys from Karaganda, Pavlodar and Almaty arrived! So there was also a chance to show your strength to your closest competitors. That is, to show yourself and look at others.
On the first day of competition, the strongest were revealed in the 1500 m running (Alexander Lukyanov, Vlad Bakhtin, Regina Mitrofanova and Moldir Seitkhanova), shot put (Erica Kem, Daria Demchenko, Pavel Belogortsev, Artur Gafner), triple jump (Miras Kaidarov, Danil Pilyugin, Anastasia Sauer, Kristina Kharitonova), 400 m running (Nazar Terentyev, Zhandos Kumarbekov, Arina Saifullina, Alexandra Egorina) and high jump (Elizaveta Matveeva, Veta Kharitonova, Akylzhan Toktagalin, Georgy Ermolov).
The novelty of the competition was the 50 m run. Strangely enough, there is such an athletics discipline, but it was tested in Ust-Kamenogorsk for the first time in a long time. And after all, they had never practiced running this distance before – after their debut on the “fifty kopecks” for the first time in their careers, Veta Kharitonova and Anastasia Zavodina from Ust-Kamenogorsk fulfilled the standards of Candidates for master of sports. The girls’ happiness simply had no limits. Besides them, Vlad Feshchenko and Viktor Kushnarev won the championship titles at this distance.
Separately, I would like to note the success in the shot put of Erica Kem. By sending a projectile to 11.23 meters, this girl born in 1999 set a new personal record!
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A source: http://vksport.kz
