Elina Mikhina became the second at the international tournament in memory of Gusman Kosanov in Almaty
However, today will be the second competition day, which can add a positive mood to our fans of this sport. Ridder runner Elina Mikhina has made a great start to the current summer season, performing more than convincingly at the stages of the Asian Grand Prix, twice becoming the first and once finishing second. But in the future, something our countryman stopped getting along with the result. She was very close to running out of 53 seconds, but by the middle of the season, Elina started running at the same speed as at the beginning of the season, again moving away from the cherished time. At the recent Championship of Kazakhstan, they decided to save her altogether, without taking her to the final of the 400 m race, where she still made her way. So we hardly had the right to expect that Mikhina would be able to demonstrate outstanding speed at the Kosanov memorial. The website of the Athletics Federation of Kazakhstan again named the Ridder athlete the favorite to start at the 400 m distance. However, this was done more out of inertia than based on the demonstrated results. And Mikhina was not the first in Almaty. She lost, and quite a lot to the representative of India Puvamma Raju Machettira, running 400 m in 53.63 s. The guest from India was 0.4 seconds faster. Moreover, Elina’s second place was not guaranteed at all. The heroine of our story won only 0.07 s from another representative of India, who took third place, Jisna Mateva. So far, for some reason, Elina cannot find her former speed, which allowed her to show just phenomenal seconds for Kazakhstan. We hope that this season one of the elite athletes of Asia will be able to cope with all the problems, and will appear again in her best condition. GUSMAN KOSANOV MEMORIAL Running 400 m. Women: 1. Puvamma Raju Machettira (India) — 53.23 s 2. Elina MIKHINA (Kazakhstan) — 53.63 s 3. Jisna Matev (India) — 53.70 Alexey Gubanov A source: vksport.kz