On February 15, the Kazakhstan Junior Athletics Championship started at the Olga Rypakova Athletics Center.
The very first day of the competition turned out to be very joyful and generous with events. Ustkamenogorsk athlete Elizaveta Matveeva fulfilled the standard of the Master of Sports in athletics in high jump. We sincerely congratulate the jumper and her coach Lyudmila Valentinovna Peshko with an excellent result!
In fact, today was a really important day, especially in the girls’ high jump sector. In addition to the fact that Matveeva fulfilled the standard, today she fought with her main rival from Almaty, Kristina Ovchinnikova, for the right to play as part of the U-20 national team at the International Match Meeting in Minsk, which will be held from February 24 to 26.
Following the results of the competition, an Almaty jumper will go to represent our country, as her performance was a little more confident, as usual, everything was decided by the number of attempts.
Apart from Kristina and Elizabeth, no one managed to reach a height of 180 cm. By the way, Ovchinnikova herself fulfilled the MS standard quite recently, at the championship of Kazakhstan on January 24. Then the athlete entered the sector with the most productive high-altitude athlete of the country, Nadezhda Dubovitskaya, and this time Matveeva was a worthy competitor.
Despite the fact that both girls overcame the 180 cm bar on the first attempt, Lisa completed the previous height of 175 cm on the very third attempt, but Kristina took heights starting from 165 cm without a single miss.
Progress is obvious, we hope that each participant this time received not only a truly great pleasure from the hot battle, but also remained with a wonderful aftertaste!
The men’s performances in the high jump were no less vivid. The main rivals in the sector were Vladislav Bakhtin from East Kazakhstan region and Egor Oleshko from Mangystau region. By the way, Almaty athlete Roman Loshkarev participated outside the competition. Of course, due to his age and experience, this athlete showed a higher result – 2 m 12 cm. But the young athletes did not go so far away from him, their “controversial” height was 2 m. And, as usual, it’s up to the attempts. Egor made a confident first attempt, which allowed him to stay on the line higher in the final protocol than the East Kazakhstan jumper. He was able to fly over the bar on the second attempt.
Athletes from East Kazakhstan region can be congratulated on a double “shot” at the prize money in the 400 m run. Ekaterina Efremova and Ayim Kaysanova were the fastest in the final race. Efremova took the lead and with a score of 58.20 s became the winner in this form, Kaysanova finished second with 58.83 s, and the “bronze” went to a participant from the Kostanay region.
By the way, Ekaterina and Ayim competed on the first day of the competition in the 4 200 m relay race, where they took third place in the team with Alexandra Egorina and Sofia Bezverkhova – 1:46.01.
The men in the 4×200 relay also took the third step on the podium. Unlike the girls, the competitions there were a little more serious, as five teams entered the track, including the East Kazakhstan region. Viktor Zakharov, Ramiz Kartaev, Vladimir Feshchenko and Alexander Aksyutin fought for the honor of the region – 1:32.20.
Congratulations to all the athletes on the end of the first day of competition! We wish you further success!
Inna Semenyak
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Source: flavko.kz
