The Kazakhstan Youth Athletics Championship and “International competitions for the prizes of Olympic champion Olga Rypakova
The first set of awards was played by the shot putters. The championship among girls turned into a match meeting between athletes from East Kazakhstan region and Karaganda region. Two representatives from each region completed six attempts, the most successful of which was on the account of Ekaterina Nesterova from Karaganda – 13.63 m. Olga Khizhnyakova from Semey became the second with the best push at 12.7 m. It is curious that all the athletes showed their best results during the preliminary stage. Ekaterina Anoshkina from Karaganda received the diploma for the third place. The girls also “finished” in the same order in the international tournament for the prizes of Rypakova. As a prize, the organizing committee awarded the girls certificates for 15, 25 and 50 thousand tenge in accordance with the occupied places. The guys just had Evgeny Milovatsky from the Mangystau region out of competition. No one could even get close to his result of 14.93 m. Kazakhstan Youth Championship. Shot put. Girls (4 participants): 1. Ekaterina Nesterova (Karaganda) – 13.63 m 2. Olga KHIZHNYAKOVA (East Kazakhstan region) – 12.7 m 3. Ekaterina Anoshkina (Karaganda) – 12.32 m 4. Varvara NAZAROVA (East Kazakhstan Region) – 10.9 m Shot put. Men: 1. Evgeny Milovatsky (Mangystau region) – 14.93 m 2. Sergey Yurov (Almaty) – 13.38 m 3. Nikita Punkin (Kostanay region) – 12.7 m ..5. Vladimir TORLOPOV (East Kazakhstan Region) – 9.65 m Volchek and Ektova are the strongest in the long jump sector. Long jump competitions were held within the framework of the Kazakhstan Athletics Championship among Youth, as well as the International Tournament for O. Rypakova’s prizes. The main favorite, Ekaterina Ektova from North Kazakhstan Region, won the championship among adults, becoming one of only two athletes who managed to jump over the 6 meter mark. Natalia Volchek can well thank Providence for her victory in the youth Championship of Kazakhstan – her advantage over vice-champion Irina Semenova was only 3 cm! There were no East Kazakhstan Region athletes among the participants. Youth Championship of Kazakhstan. Long jump. Girls: 1. Natalia Volchek (Karaganda) – 5.79 m 2. Irina Semenova (SKO) – 5.76 m 3. Lyubov Lebedeva (Karaganda) – 5.63 m International competitions for the prizes of Olympic Champion Olga Rypakova. Long jump. Women: 1. Ekaterina Ektova (SKO) – 6.23 m 2. Anastasia Kudinova (Karaganda) – 6.12 m 3. Lyudmila Martysevich (Akmola region) – 5.91 m Roman Loshkarev from Almaty, despite the fact that he did not come out of youth age, managed to “jump over” all the experienced high-rise athletes of the country and win both the youth Championship of Kazakhstan and the tournament for the prizes of Olga Rypakova. Roman was the only one who could jump above 210 centimeters, so he had to “take” the last three heights alone. Loshkarev stopped only when the bar rose to the level of 2.19 m. Kazakhstan Youth Championship. High jump. Men: 1. Roman Loshkarev (Almaty) – 2.16 m 2. Sergey Oleshko (Mangystau region) – 2.04 m 3. Evgeny Palmin (Karaganda) – 1.9 m ..5. Oleg BELOV (East Kazakhstan Region) – 1.75 m International tournament for O. Rypakova’s prizes. High jump. Men: 1. Roman Loshkarev (Almaty) – 2.16 m 2. Anton Bodnar (South Kazakhstan region) – 2.08 m 3. Sergey Oleshko (Mangystau region) – 2.04 m One of the least representative sports in Kazakhstan is pole vaulting. So at the youth championship of Kazakhstan, only two athletes competed for awards. Both of them represented the same city – Almaty. Zhanna Bekbauova managed to jump 3.3 m and won a diploma for the first place. Kazakhstan Youth Athletics Championship. Pole vaulting. Girls: 1. Zhanna Bekbauova (Almaty) – 3.3 m 2. Victoria Kibler (Almaty) – 3.00 m Sprint “showdown” at the national youth Championship. The final 60 m races turned out to be more than spectacular. For girls in the national championship among athletes under 23, everything was decided in a matter of fractions of a second – the first place was separated from the third by only 0.02 seconds! Rima Kashafutdinova from Karaganda won in such a super competition. The advantage of Temirlan Suleimenov over Vitaly Zems was the same. But in the championship among adults for the prizes of Olga Rypakova, the winners – Victoria Zyabkina and Alexander Viktorenko – were simply out of competition. Kazakhstan Youth Athletics Championship. Running at 60 m. Girls: 1. Rima Kashafutdinova (Karaganda) – 7.61 s 2. Svetlana Ivanchukova (Zhambyl region) – 7.62 s 3. Nazerke Omirgalieva (Kyzylorda region) – 7.63 s Running at 60 m. Men: 1. Temirlan Suleimenov (SKO) – 6.84 s 2. Vitaly Zems (Karaganda) – 6.86 s 3. Alexander Kasper (Astana) – 6.88 s The tournament for the prizes of Olympic Champion Olga Rypakova. Running at 60 m. Women: 1. Victoria Zyabkina (Almaty) – 7.46 s 2. Anastasia Kudinova (Karaganda) – 7.56 s 3. Svetlana Ivanchukova (Zhambyl region) – 7.61 s Running at 60 m. Men: 1. Alexander Viktorenko (SKO) – 6.82 s 2. Alexander Kasper (Astana) – 6.95 s 3. Artyom Saveliev (Almaty) – 6.96 s Almaty residents took the lead in the 400 m distance the triumph of the Almaty school of athletics. Marina Zaiko won a difficult victory in the competition of the fairer sex, and Andrei Sokolov was the only one who was able to “run out” of 49 seconds. Kazakhstan Youth Athletics Championship. 400 m running. Girls: 1. Marina Zaiko (Almaty) – 57.35 s 2. Lyubov Ushakova (Karaganda) – 57.88 s 3. Ekaterina Ermak (Almaty) – 58.01 s 400 m running. Men: 1. Andrey Sokolov (Almaty) – 48.61 s 2. Elnor Mukhitdinov (South Kazakhstan Region) – 49.34 s 3. Farit Nigmatullin (Akmola region) – 50.5 c ..5. Imanmadi KUSMANOV (East KAZAKHSTAN Region) – 51.11 s The winners of the 1500 m were determined. The best stayers of the first competition day were athletes from Almaty and Karaganda. Strangely enough, it turned out to take part in the 1500 m race much more than the tracks of the O. Rypakova athletics center could accommodate, so it was necessary