Prize winners of the Kazakhstan Athletics Championship among youths born in 2002–2003
Prize winners of the Kazakhstan Athletics Championship among youths born in 2002–2003 Yefim Tarasov is the first and only track and field athlete from East Kazakhstan Region in the 2002–2003 age category who managed to win gold medals in two disciplines. In the 300 m and 600 m races, he outperformed his rivals with a solid margin. The most interesting point is that the 600 m distance turned out to be the easiest for our athletes, as Danil Suleimenov also managed to win third place in this event. 300 m Yefim TARASOV (EKO) – 38.29 Alexey Ryzhkov (Karaganda Region) – 39.65 Alisher Almagambetov (Kostanay Region) – 39.97 1000 m Nurbolat Akhmadiyev (Astana) – 2:51.34 Kanat Bilimkhan (Almaty Region) – 2:54.22 Alexander Makarov (Pavlodar Region) – 2:54.49 60 m hurdles Nikita Osinsky (Pavlodar Region) – 8.78 Evgeny Kolesov (SKO) – 8.81 Leonid Ivanov (Pavlodar Region) – 9.14 High jump Asylzhan Sabyr (SKO) – 1.75 Vladislav Pletnev (Karaganda Region) – 1.70 Rinat Gazimov (Karaganda Region) – 1.65 Heptathlon Evgeny Kolesnikov (SKO) – 3802 Abdulhamid Kisin (Almaty) – 3582 Daniil Petrov (Karaganda Region) – 3336 The youngest athletes of the championship also showed strong results. Olga Pulyaeva and Elizaveta Buluchevskaya from East Kazakhstan left a noticeable mark on the national championship among the youngest competitors. Both girls managed to win silver medals on the second day of competition. Buluchevskaya was the first to bring a medal to the East Kazakhstan team among girls born in 2002–2003. She managed to outperform her rivals in the 60 m hurdles, while Pulyaeva secured the second silver for the team in the 300 m race. In fact, Olga Pulyaeva showed promise already on the first day of the championship in the 60 m race, but unfortunately she did not make it into the top three and finished fourth. 300 m (girls) Nadezhda Yurchenko (North Kazakhstan Region) – 42.10 Olga PULYAEVA (EKO) – 42.60 Yana Kochmar (Karaganda Region) – 42.73 1000 m (girls) Alexandra Mokhireva (Karaganda Region) – 3:09.76 Tatyana Zagrivaya (Kostanay Region) – 3:10.97 Yulia Shchur (Pavlodar Region) – 3:12.08 60 m hurdles (girls) Ekaterina Kudashkina (Almaty Region) – 9.59 Elizaveta BULUCHEVSKAYA (EKO) – 9.68 Olga Chernova (SKO) – 9.75 Moldir Seitkhanova finished third in the 3000 m race at the junior Kazakhstan Athletics Championship. The final positions in this event were decided long before the finish. No one was able to compete with Viktoria Sergeeva today, including the excellent long-distance runner from Ridder. On the last lap, Sergeeva managed to lap Seitkhanova, although our athlete actively resisted. Possibly thanks to this, Moldir managed to run under 11 minutes. 3000 m (girls, 6 participants) Viktoria Sergeeva (North Kazakhstan Region) – 10:16.45 Ellina Rumyantseva (Kostanay Region) – 10:27.14 Moldir SEITKHANOVA (EKO) – 10:59.72 Karaganda junior girls won the final gold medal of the national athletics championship. The East Kazakhstan team finished second. The girls’ junior 4×400 m relay became a moment of triumph for the Karaganda athletics school. The team from this city won the relay with a clear advantage. Even though they had only two competing teams, the athletes from the mining capital of Kazakhstan performed excellently. Athletes from East Kazakhstan can also be proud of themselves. Arina Saifullina took advantage of her final opportunity to stand on the podium for the second time at this championship — she had won bronze in the 800 m the day before, and here she finished one place higher. She was strongly supported by Tatyana Druzhina from Ridder. This athlete was not able to reach the podium in individual events, as she is still regaining form after a long break. Her teammate Regina Mitrofanova, who also competed in this relay, was born in 2001, so she is not yet ready to compete equally with older athletes in the junior category. However, in this relay they did everything possible to win the silver medal. It is worth noting that Mitrofanova performed excellently in both relay races — the day before she had won a bronze medal in the 4×200 m relay. Ekaterina Efremova also deserves special mention. The Ust-Kamenogorsk athlete was perhaps the only one in the team who ran her main distance. She had already won bronze in the 400 m at this championship and did not miss the chance to fight for a higher result here. 4×400 m relay (girls, 3 teams) Karaganda Region (Ovchinnikova, Akhmetova, Paromonova, Lysaya) – 4:00.45 East Kazakhstan Region (Druzhina, Saifullina, Efremova, Mitrofanova) – 4:11.21 North Kazakhstan Region (Sergeeva, Astafyeva, Mamekova, Shapovalova) – 4:17.18 Pentathlon Sarifa Rzakulieva became the national champion in the pentathlon, outperforming all other participants by more than 300 points. She won four out of five events: high jump, long jump, shot put, and 60 m hurdles. In the 800 m race, Anastasia Nedeva was the best and eventually finished third overall. It is noteworthy that all five events were completed in one day within just a few hours, making it a tough challenge for the athletes. Unfortunately, Viktoria Ryazantseva, one of the contenders, withdrew from the competition after the high jump. Pentathlon (5 participants) Sarifa Rzakulieva (Almaty) – 3320 Valentina Potapova (Karaganda Region) – 3063 Anastasia Nedeva (Karaganda Region) – 2864 3000 m (men, 18 participants) This event featured a very high level of competition. All 18 athletes who started the race finished it. The race was led by two representatives of Almaty Region — Alexander Popov and Daryn Konysbayev — who competed mainly against each other while also achieving first-category standards. Alexander Popov (Almaty Region) – 8:49.25 Daryn Konysbayev (Almaty Region) – 8:50.37 Said Sulaimanov (SKO) – 9:00.99…12. Sabyrzhan Akabayev (EKO) – 9:46.06 Athletes from East Kazakhstan narrowly lost to the Pavlodar Region team in a tight contest. The East Kazakhstan men’s 4×400 m relay team was truly a combined team: athletes came from different cities — Belousovka, Ridder, Semey, and Ust-Kamenogorsk. Despite limited time to practice baton exchanges together, they managed to perform successfully. 4×400 m relay (men, 6 teams) Karaganda Region – 3:26.52 Pavlodar Region –